Gone Fishin'

To say Cooper loves to go fishing is kind of an understatement.

It's almost an understatement to say he's obsessed with fishing.

I'd say he's hooked.  :)

He talks about fishing constantly.  When not trying to snag a trophy in actual body of water, he's playing a fishing game on the Wii or an iPod or watching a fishing show on tv.  One of Derek's co-workers that has worked on the In-Fisherman tv show gave Cooper four DVD's containing an entire season of the show.  It's always in the running when deciding what we're going to watch.

 Miles typically takes his cues from his big 'brudda'.

He enjoys when he gets to tag along too.

On this day Derek took the boys by himself.

They didn't catch a.single.thing.

And then it rained on them.

But they are not discouraged!

Soon we all went to see what we could catch. 

They were nice enough to pose for a picture before continuing.

I take pictures more than I fish...

How can I resist the cuteness?  :) 

When I'm not taking pictures that look like the boys are patiently watching for their bobbers to move, I'm baiting their hooks and re-casting their line because they got bored and reeled it in prematurely and the weeds stole their bait.

Although I'm not re-baiting as often now that Cooper is getting better at it.

Yay!  More pictures on my camera roll to sort through!  Ha.

Miles is starting to try and bait his hook too and actually managed to get some power bait on the hook a couple times.  He got his finger on the hook once too though and asked for help more after that.

He also tries to cast his line, but often needs help with that too.

Cooper has also mastered taking the fish off the hook.

...and has been known to throw them back with quite a splash!

 But recently has paid more attention to the way the pros do it and wants

to set the fish down gently into the water and let it swim out of his hand...

We always have fun.

Even if the only thing Miles caught was this weed.

But it was bigger than Daddy's fish!!

And it doesn't matter what they catch, or don't, these guys love fishing!