Hailey's HUGE catch!

Hailey reeling it in. Dan pulling it out of the water.

Look how big that is!


Dan and the kids.
E and papa
The worms!
This weekend my dad (Papa) came up to Pinedale for the long weekend. the one thing that he really wanted to do was go fishing with the kids. Saturday morning we headed out to Boulder Lake for a day of fun and excitement. We took up most of the day warding off the bees that were swarming the beach we were on. No luck with the fishing. Dan slipped on his swim shorts and waded out until he was chest deep and cast the poles out to see if we could have better luck. Quickly thereafter, we caught a tiny baby fish on my pole that we let go back. We left the poles and shot the guns for a while, not paying attention to the poles. Dan saw Hailey's pole moving out of the corner of his eye and Hailey ran over to reel in THE BIGGEST FISH EVER!!! The combination of lack of strength and the barbie fishing pole resulted in Dan wading out into the water to get the fish. When he pulled it ou of the water WE WERE SHOCKED!!! The fish had somehow gotten snagged by Hailey's pole and tangled itself in in my line. It didn't even fight as she reeled it in. We think that it must have been out there fighting for a while. It was 4 lbs. and 20 inches long. That beats all of our records for lake trout! She was thrilled about the catch and talked about it all day at church. We ate it for dinner tonight and it fed 3 adults and 2 kids with leftovers. What a great weekend!