The rain of the last couple of weeks has made it possible to get the Lund into Round Pond for my family fishing trips. It is great fun to be finding new perch spots and there are certainly plenty of perch to be found. Thursday afternoon I had a family with two teenage sons fishing and they were doing quite well. Both boys had fifteen or sixteen fish and we had a school of perch under the boat a good part of the time. I was busy keeping lines straight and looking in another direction when I hear a very loud splash.
One of the boys had been standing on the storage box along the side of the boat and simply lost his balance and fell in. His rod of course went in with him! Luckily we were using bobbers and worms so the bobber was still floating. After a minute of splashing around we got him back in the boat and turned our attention to retrieving the rod. I started the electric trolling motor and started for the bobber. At that moment the bobber disappeared, Fish On! Now what? After going under several times and making me wonder if perhaps I would lose the bobber and all. It floated to the surface the fish had gotten off of the slack line and left me the rod.
I have done family fishing trips for several years and sometimes worried that one of the kids would get excited or be concentrating hard on fishing and fall overboard. The Lund is such a wide stable platform though that it has not happened, until now.
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