Fishing Day at Salem Pond

Every year we get to go to Salem Pond with Clara's school. The DNR sets up to help the kids catch fish and they will clean them also. Albertson's caters lunch and it is a wonderful activity. This year I took Clara and Holden with me. Makayla was sad that she couldn't go because she had school.

When we got there, Holden saw the playground. He was mad because I wouldn't let him play. He wanted nothing to do with fishing. Clara and her intervener Maury went right to work fishing. She picked up a pole (that already had a fish on it) and together they reeled it in. She had fun holding the pole, but could have cared less about the fish. We got it cleaned anyway - Austin would clean it for dinner. After all the kids in her class got their fish, we had lunch and visited. The day was perfect!

After lunch, Clara's class had to get back to school. Since we drove separately we stayed a bit longer. I let Holden play on the playground. He was so cute running around and down the slide and all over.

When Holden was done playing on the playground, we walked around the lake. He picked up a fishing pole and held it for a little while, but didn't want to catch a fish.

A little further down the lake, we saw a couple DNR guys asked us if we were ready to get some fish. I told them we already had a fish. They said they had a couple fish on the poles that needed to be reeled in. One helped Clara and the other helped Holden. Clara just wanted the pole to swing around. After the guy got her fish off, he took the hook off so she could play with the pole. Holden didn't want to see or hold his fish. He wanted them to put it in the bucket.

We then took the fish up to be cleaned. Holden was very interested in what they were doing. He kept looking under the table to watch the guy gut the fish.

When we got home, we gave the fish to Austin to finish cleaning. Holden watched him take off the head and skin. He even ate the fish for dinner that night.

Thanks Clara for the fun day!