This morning the Teachers and Priests of the Park Fourth Ward went fishing at Manila Creek Pond. Brother Dye has been teaching the boys to fly fish, and we wanted to see how they did when pitted against real life fish.
We met at the church house at 7:30 AM, and then drove the short distance to this awesome urban pond in Pleasant Grove. I missed the fly fishing training session, and so I decided to use a spin casting setup instead of a fly fishing pole. Unfortunately I forgot the top half of my normal pole, and so I had to use one of my kid’s poles. It worked well enough.
I did not get a picture of Nathan Howard, but he was there.
Zach drew first blood with this magnificient green sunfish 
I then caught a fairly nice trout. I feel like I was cheating as i was not fly fishing. 
Brother Carter put the fly fishermen ahead with a nice trout. 
And Brother Dye showed why he was teaching the class. 
After fishing we met to clean the fish. 
Collin showing the finished product, and Hunter with a handful of guts. 
Zach wanted to see what the back of a fish eye ball looked like. 
My fish was delicious.
After fishing we went adjourned to my house to clean the fish. The boys were actually pretty enthusiastic. I expected them to be squeamish, but they weren’t. Once they were shown what to do they were more than happy to get their hands dirty.
One response to “Fishing Expedition”
Amazing Jason!!!