You & Me Goin Fishin in the Dark

Well, it wasn't dark. But it was early, or rather it was supposed to be early. Over the 4th of July weekend Sean and I decided to go fishing. And just so that you know, it was more me than him pushing to go fishing. I've never been fishing and I've wanted to go for a long time now, but no one will take me. Finally the one man in the world I could count on for anything took me fishing. I got up early, Sean not so much. After dropping off some food at our ward breakfast we set off to Mirror Lake. The day was really overcast so I brought my jacket (I should have brought my coat but I didn't think it would be that cold). I didn't get a fishing license so I couldn't fish but Sean said he would at least show me how to. Honestly, I think he just didn't want to watch me fish, how frustrating is that? Anyway we got up to the lake at about 9:30 am and set up on the west side of the lake. Here is a picture of Sean getting ready to start fishing.
I had brought things to keep me occupied while Sean was fishing. But I found myself doing a lot more looking around than anything else.

I liked looking across the lake and watching the fish jump out of the water. I liked watching the family next to us teach their kids to cast off with their little fisher price fishing rods. I liked watching the clouds go by and trying to predict their direction. In the end I did very little reading and just a lot of relaxing, it was great. Sean caught I can't even recall how many fish, but he would mostly just catch and release. Here's a few pictures of the fish that he caught.
None of the fish were very big, but that's alright because it was still fun. The weather was a little fickle. When we got there it was sunny. Two hours later it was cold and rainy. Then two hours later it was sunny. In the end I ended up with a sunburn and so did Sean. But as you can see we had a really good time.
And even though I didn't get to fish much, other than hold the rod when Sean went to go answer natures call or when he was eating a sandwich, I still got in my fishing lesson. While Sean was cleaning out the two fish that we were going to take home. I was just sitting on the beach holding onto the fishing rod that Sean was having me hold. Now the entire time that I was with Sean I was watching him fish and paying attention to what he did. So I was watching the bubble to see if it went down, and it did. So I waited for it to go down a second time (I figured from watching Sean that you don't reel it in on the first bite, he only explained why later). When it went down the second time, I gave a good tug on the rod and started reeling in. And low and behold guess what I caught!
That's right, I caught myself a fish! A little fish, but a fish none the less. We released it back into the lake, but I still named him "my wriggly, and he shall be mine, and he shall be my wriggly." Yes I'm a natural blue.