My Exciting Fishing Trip

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Matt Bowen Mrs. Todaro DSP800 31 Jan 2012 My exciting fishing trip August 30, 2005 was my first exciting day fishing with my dad. The day started out rather unusual he woke me up at five’0 clock in the morning. This was unusual because normally we didn’t go fishing until twelve in the afternoon. We made it to the lake at six’0 clock in the morning. When we made it to the lake for some reason it was packed and it took us about an hour to get onto the water. Finally we were in the water. Dad took us to a secret fishing spot where he had caught many fish from. It didn’t take us long before we caught the first fish of the day. My dad caught a five pound striped bass. I had never seen seen a fish this big so I stared at it. My dad asked me when I was going to catch one. I told him I didn’t know. Little did I know I was about to catch a monster. All of a sudden my pole jerked in my hand my dad told me to jerk as hard as could and start to reel it in. This was easier said than done. I reeled in the line with all my might and it seemed like the fish was never going to get to the boat. Finally after fighting with the fish for five minutes I got the fish to the boat. This was no ordinary fish it was huge it was as big as I was. My dad almost had a cow when he saw how big it was. We soon left and went home. Once we were home my dad had the fish mounted and we put it up on the wall. As I fell asleep that might I reflected back on the day and I realized what an exciting day it
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