This past weekend, the kids had their fishing contest at Tri-boro and they ALL wanted to win and they were ALL excited. It ended up being a beautiful spring day-perfect for the kids to be outside fishing....the day began very early for them as they are all old enough now to be up with dad and to help with the fish truck and help stock the fish in the canal. (I think Mike said they were up at 6am) The contest begins at 8am and goes till 12N. Once you catch a fish of significant size, you want to register the fish because if someone else has a fish of the same size, it goes off the earlier time. So..now that you know the rules this is how the morning went. The 4 cousins are on one side of the canal...and across the way-a blonde hair little girl about 5 years of age...She was catching fish after fish and BIG ones too!...definately contest worthy..well, anyone who knows us Bodnar's, you know there is a bit of competitiveness...so Eveylen had one...Patrick had one..Michael had one and than 2 and than 3 and than 4.....Nicholas had zero!....so he decides to switch places w/his brother and he catches a BIG one, but looses it...does NOT sit well with him...he is pissed and is very upset....and now the clock is ticking closer and closer to 12N...so now he switches to the other side of the canal...and he catches a fish..nothing to brag about, but at least he has caught one....than dad can see a BIG fish chasing his bait...and a few times, Nick almost has it and dad is JUMPING up and down because he knows how close it came...than all of a sudden...WHAMO..Nick cathes the HUGE fish with 3 minutes to go...it takes him about 2 1/2 minutes to reel it in and than once he does him and dad are running through the parking lot to reach the checkin stand in time...and luckily they do and Nick has caught a 20inch fish and comes in 2nd place..(there was another 20incher caught before him)...so here are some photos of this weekend....
