The X Man goes fishing

They have a little pond owned by the Army up in Baumholder (30 minutes north of Ramstein) that they stock with trout for people to fish in so I decided to take the X Man for his first ever fishing trip. It was a rousing success. He caught one nice rainbow trout and several little carp (or as he calls them, "carpenters"). He had a blast and I enjoyed the experience of taking my son fishing for the first time immensely. We will go back for sure. I landed a monster rainbow as well so we took both trout home and the wife cooked them up and served them with a nice side salad and a lovely chardonnay. The X Man, fussy eater that he is, would not eat the fish so he had mac and cheese instead.

Here are some pictures from our excursion. Click on them to embiggen...







You can't buy worms for bait in Germany as the Germans consider it cruelty to animals so we used corn instead. One guy there had powerbait and caught his limit in about 20 minutes so I might just have to order some of that stuff for next time...