Extremely boring to everyone else.
Yesterday at the cookout, Cynthia mentioned that today would be a "free fishing" day. Apparently everyone may fish with artificial bait regardless of whether they have a license. So, I invited them to come. This morning at about 8:45 Justin knocked on the door, which was closed and locked. My mom let him in and walked him to the bathroom. I went to see what was going on; Justin had been stuck by a catfish on his hand between his thumb and index finger. Lots of blood.
I took a shower and Lindsey got ready, also. We gathered our fishing supplies (I had to open a new rod and reel that had been in the corner behind the TV for a couple years—my other reel had malfunctioned two days ago). I was excited because I hadn't been fishing with Justin in years. We used to do it all the time.
Lindsey and I walked over to the deep end, as we all call it. Justin and Cynthia had been there since about 7:30 AM. We fished for several hours. Carlyn eventually came out and used one of Justin's rods. It wouldn't cast far, so Carlyn just let it sit right off shore. He caught about 15—one catfish with my rod when I was away, 13 brim (you might know them as bluegills), and a raccoon perch. I caught a few catfish and brim. I went away from the group several times and three separate times with three different people my rod brought in a fish. Lindsey caught her first catfish, another, a brim, and a bass. Cynthia and Justin each caught a few brim and catfish. We kept a lot of them in buckets. Carlyn ran to the building and found one that I had forgotten I bought.
At one point I had just started to walk back to the house when Lindsey yelled and Justin scrambled. My rod had gone into the water. I quickly grabbed Lindsey's rod to attempt to snag it. Miraculously, it hooked the rod right away and I slowly reeled it in. It must've been a large fish. No one saw the bobber go under—Lindsey just saw the pole slide into the water before she could grab it.
Dad went to get everyone breakfast at Bojangles', and also stopped to get more worms. At noon we all went in to eat. We watched the Andy Griffith episode in which the crook rolls into town and becomes Mayberry's guest of honor for Founder's Day. After breakfast/lunch we went back, but I realized how tired I was and Lindsey and I went in after a few minutes. The rest followed shortly after.
They took the fish home with them after I covered the bucket with plastic wrap. Cynthia called James before to make sure he would be willing to skin them. I asked Justin if he was going to set off or see any fireworks tonight. He said he had a few from Wal-Mart that he's going to set off for Alexis. I invited him to come over here to do them if he wanted, and said there would probably be others setting some off as well.
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