My freshman wanted to do some fishing so he invited a friend along and we headed over to the bigger city's "family fishing park". This is a neat deal where a local construction company donated one of its tapped out sand and gravel quarries to the city for a park. The city and the state work together to keep it stocked with game fish. The water is deep and clear enough to keep rainbow trout alive for part of the year as well as South Dakota standards walleyes, bluegills, crappies, and northerns.
When we got there, a crew of state agency guys were dumping northerns they had trapped in a couple much larger lakes about a 100 miles north into family park. They ranged from "hammer handles" up through a 12 pounder or so. My pixs weren't every good but we saw dozens go into the lake.
After the state guys left the boys went fishing down the line and dad settled down to cut tackle out of a "snaglefuess" (what my German uncles used to call a messed pile of fishing line). My boys had found it down at Falls Park a few weeks earlier with their aunt. I wanted to see how much stuff was in this pile of dozens and dozens pieces of line. Here's soon after I started cutting.
In the end, I had about 3/4th a pound of lead, a couple of lures I can rehabilitate, and some big treble hooks.
There was still lots of hooks left in the sanglefuess but not much for weights and the overall size of it was much reduced. There ended up being a local news photographer there at the park. The fish stocking was a big bonus for him and after a while he ended up taking pixs of me and my line cutting so maybe I'll end up in the paper in a couple of days. Good thing I was wearing my "Peterson Furs" trapping hat!
I didn't see much for fish being caught, T ended up with one rainbow that he released. The boys saw a bunch of northerns in the various shallow inlets but they weren't interested in biting. There's always another day...
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