Hooper
06-15-2006, 10:07 AM
With Father's Day approaching, I found it interesting that I should be reading "Wisdom of Our Father's" last night by Tim Russert. If anyone on this board has a father, I would strongly recommend this book as well as "Big Russ and Me".
I have my Dad to thank for me becoming a fisherman. Although he knew nothing about fishing, he knew that Dad's are supposed to take their son's fishing, so that's what he did. We would take a 4 hour charter out of Rock Harbor each summer and for me it was better than Christmas morning. We fished with Larry Doherty on the boat "Hey Dad". My brother and I picked that boat out of all the others in the harbor because we liked the name.
My father owned a restaurant on the lower Cape and the first year he took us he agreed to pay my brother and I $5 for each fish we caught. Well, we caught 21 bluefish, all of which ended up on the menu that week. He paid up and he never made that offer to us again. Now, I take my Dad fishing on my boat, and I than him each time I do for that gift and others.
I have my Dad to thank for me becoming a fisherman. Although he knew nothing about fishing, he knew that Dad's are supposed to take their son's fishing, so that's what he did. We would take a 4 hour charter out of Rock Harbor each summer and for me it was better than Christmas morning. We fished with Larry Doherty on the boat "Hey Dad". My brother and I picked that boat out of all the others in the harbor because we liked the name.
My father owned a restaurant on the lower Cape and the first year he took us he agreed to pay my brother and I $5 for each fish we caught. Well, we caught 21 bluefish, all of which ended up on the menu that week. He paid up and he never made that offer to us again. Now, I take my Dad fishing on my boat, and I than him each time I do for that gift and others.