My wife and I were expecting our first child early this spring and he was due in the next 6 weeks, so I had planned to take a last minute fishing trip before he was born, as I knew I wouldn’t get to do much more fishing once he got here.
To our surprise he decided to make his appearance in this world that very week before I got to go on my fishing trip. Bring as he was born early we had to spend right at two weeks in the NICU. Finally, we were able to leave the hospital with our beautiful and healthy baby boy and that next day my wife and I were tired of sitting inside as that’s all we did for the two weeks that he was in the hospital. Therefore, we took the newborn out for a little fresh air and there was a lake we were going to be walking by on our walk so I grabbed my rod and reel on the way out.
I made a cast or two as we walked past this lake and caught this fish on the second cast. He wasn’t the biggest and it wasn’t exactly the “trip” I had planned, but it was one of the most memorable.
