Contest submission extraordinaire….
December 24th, 2009
I’m very proud to have a submission from my Auntie up north. She is very important to me personally…..and as our northern correspondent, of course. I’m still planning on seeing you, Auntie, in 2010 for silvers. Cross your fingers I can make it happen. Here is her story and pics. Bravo!
Judy Heller aka Auntie
As a small kid, youngest of 5, only girl, I idolized my father and brothers. Since they loved to fish, I had to fish! We went to the lake in these pictures every summer since I was a baby, where Sal Sr. taught all of us how to fish and water ski.
Sal Monid Sr.
In those days a person could use live bait and Dad’s favorite bass technique was with bullhead (as in sculpin not catfish), so us little kids would run around and catch these little fish on sticks with a line and hook attached for his evening forays.
That particular year I was “fishing” off the dock and caught a HUGE fish (my memory says it was a large mouth bass, but the brothers remembered it as a trout or a perch. I’ll stick to the bass and even go as far as to claim the one Dad is holding up in the picture!!!!!)
My Auntie has been at this game for a while now….respect…
Ever since then, with the exception of the boy crazy, hormone induced puberty years, I have been “HOOKED”. All the blood, guts and gore just bring back warm fuzzies of my childhood and the exhilaration of my first catch, finally landing myself a true spot in the Monid clan.
