Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Your wildlife lesson for the day....

It is that time of year again! As most of you know, there is a slight lull in the amount of wildlife/hunting posts on my blog through the winter months. Well, it is spring again, and with fishing season opening a few weeks ago, and turkey season starting on Thursday, I am here to tell you to brace yourself for all things wild and/or dead!
Sunday afternoon Peter took Cody out fishing in the English River, that runs behind our house. Cody caught a 10 1/2 inch trout! He was so excited! It was caught with his new reel, too. So here is my boy and his catch:

And here are my boys doing the fun job of cleaning the catch!


While they were up river, Cody (who has an uncanny knack with animals) managed to spot THE tiniest snapping turtle EVER on the river bank! He was on the picnic table but tried to crawl off into thin air and I caught him in my hand. See how tiny?? Hard to believe how old the larger turtles must be when you see how tiny this one is!



Have a great day!
Keri

5 comments:

Andi (RrlScrapGal) said...

What an awesome day you guys must have had!
LOVE the itty bitty turtle still with his tail!

Lisa Renéa said...

Woo hoo! Go Code-Man! I love, me some smoked trout!! Delicious! congrats on your big catch!!
ps. Check out this site http://www.thelostsea.com/
It's the largest underground lake inside a cave in the US, the lake is full of rainbow trout.

Tracy said...

wow cody's getting big :-) and that is one tiny wee turtle (the tail is bigger than the rest of him!)

Pam's Pride said...

That looks like so much fun! My boys are just itching to go fishing!

Pam's Pride said...

That looks like so much fun! My boys are just itching to go fishing!