Personal Narrative Essay On Fishing

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Sometimes you expect something but you get another thing that’s completely different and it ends up being a lot better than the actual thing you were expecting. That is what happened when we were up north. We were about twenty minutes outside of minocqua driving to go on a fishing trip. I had always either taken the boat to some place on the lake or we had just gone fishing off the pier but had never driven so I assumed it would be a special place and would be “Lit”. Me and my dad were following our family friend who actually owned the cottage. Now at the time I was maybe eight so as we were walking I was asking all the typical questions “Are we there yet?” “No” my dad replied. We walked about another fifty yards and once again I said …show more content…

But when we got there I saw a sleek wooden structure with sturdy 12’’ by 12” wooden beams going across. Rushing water flowing through the old logging dam it was maybe twenty five feet across and apparently had been opened in the 1870s and was in service for about fifty years and was added to the national list of historic places. Now I had no idea that this was the spot that we were going to be fishing at I had assumed it was going to be some place on the shore. So we walked down the side of the dam to a little spot right at the end. We set everything up baited our lines and started casting. About 3 casts later I felt a tug and started slowly reeling in before I went full on ape mode and started reeling it in at five feet a second and fifteen seconds later got my first fish of the day a small two pound perch. I took the perch off the line posed for a picture and threw it back in the …show more content…

But when it was about three feet from the surface I could get a very blurry look at it and it looked more like a rock But when it was maybe a foot and a half away from the surface being eight I saw a face that would haunt me for the rest of my life. The face of the common american snapping turtle with its mouth open wide slowly rising to the surface I screamed to my dad. “Dad I think got a snapping turtle” what he said I don’t think I can print but it was something like

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