Early this morning (10 o’clock) I woke up with Lacy on my lap. I went upstairs and got ready for the day and waited for my mom, my little sister and her friend to eat breakfast.  When everything was done, we (mom, sister and friend) set out to go fishing and play tennis. The girls were going to play tennis and mom and I would fish. The tennis court was only a few steps away from the stream. While we were hooking up our bait, the girls decided they were bored and went home with Lacy. While we were hooking up the bait, I noticed a dead four inch long snake.  As we were walking to the stream, we also noticed a dead fox laying in the middle of the field. We felt bad for it so we gave it a respectful moment of silence and hoped its brothers and sisters were ok. We finally got to the fishing. There were tons of fish (see picture below). As soon as I cast my line, and the hook hit the water, it went under and pulled very hard. I didn’t expect it to be that fast. I pulled the fish out of the water (see below).  My mom and I had never unhooked a fish before so we freaked thinking the life of this fish, lay in our inexperienced hands but after a little bit of coaching from me (to my mom), she was able to push the hook to the back of the fish’s throat and free it. Then, as my mom was holding the fish, I filled our bucket with water. Mom wanted to go get her camera from the house but before she could leave, I decided to catch one more in the same exact way. Mom got kind of annoyed that she had to backtrack to free my second fish before she could take off. While she was gone, I guzzled her Gatorade and used the bottle to collect more water for our fish. When mom got back, I was ready to catch more fish and so I did.  Shortly thereafter, two boys arrived on the scene wanting to join us. They were pulling fish out of the water as fast as I was and poor mom was desperately trying to save our little victims from dying on the hook. One of the fish swallowed the hook and got it stuck on its tongue. Unfortunately we had to remove a part of its mouth in order to free the little guy but thankfully, he made it with a lifelong memory.  After that everything went pretty smoothly and since our bucket was getting kinda full, we decided to call it a morning (it was hot as blazes, see photo) so we gazed into our fish bucket a final time and then released them back into “the wild”. 13 fish baby! Yeah!