My day out with my boy

[SRT8 smoker craft]

Took my son Kaleb out for a B-day fish yesterday afternoon he turned 2 we went down to the local creek and I thought we might get into some suckers and silver bass which hang out in the hole we were going to so we get there and start walkin down to the creek Kaleb had to carry the worms and his lightning mcqueen rod

 

 

got to our spot set kaleb up in his frog chair with a worm on a dropshot rig and before I got my rod ready his almost went in the river I grab it and hand him the rod but he tried to reel the wrong way and a nice little 1-2lb bow flies out of the creek and spits the hook almost had his first bow in the stream on his second B-day that would have been a cool story for when he gets older he did manage to drag in a chub and a sucker and Dad caught a sucker to .we also got a bit of a nature show as we were fishing a small predatory bird was whooping a kingfishers butt not sure what kind of bird it was but it sat on a branch on the other side of the creek for awhile before it flew away anyone know what it is bad pic had to go to 16x digital zoom to get the pic .

 

 

This post was inspired by the adventures of Ryan, Averie and Luc LOL

Edited September 21, 2010 by SRT8

[mercman]

GREAT POST !!! sounds like the little guys is gonna out fish his pops one day. Ya gotta post some when he gets a good one. I want to see his face.

 

Looks like a hawk or a turkey vulture, but hard to tell in the picture.

[SRT8 smoker craft]

Thanks merc. The bird was small about the size of a bluejay mabye a bit bigger.

[asdve23rveavwa]

Great little post, and still a good story for Kaleb when he gets older. He may just have the "fishing gods" on his side hooking a trout right off the bat at the age of 2

[danbouck]

Awesome, we should get him and Jacob out in the boat for some perch

[Eazy]

Startin' him out early eh?

[Pigeontroller]

Great pic of your Son!

[mercman]

Thanks merc. The bird was small about the size of a bluejay mabye a bit bigger.

 

on second look, the tail markings look a bit like a peregrine falcon. they are a smaller bird about the size of a pigeon maybe slightly bigger. I cant think of another smaller preditory bird. looks bigger in the picture against the bg

[Dave Bailey]

That is one cute kid, great pic!

 

And I'm thinking that the bird is a sharp-shinned hawk, if it was small then it would have been a male. The tail is too squared off for a peregrine. They also have longer legs and that one appears to be sitting higher on that perch than a falcon would:

 

[SRT8 smoker craft]

That is one cute kid, great pic!

 

And I'm thinking that the bird is a sharp-shinned hawk, if it was small then it would have been a male. The tail is too squared off for a peregrine. They also have longer legs and that one appears to be sitting higher on that perch than a falcon would:

 

 

Thanks he is a clown always messin around ,your the second to mention the SS hawk only thing I could find that looked simalar was a merlin or a harrier regardless it was cool to see they went right into the water just scrappin till the kingfisher got loose and took off .

 

Dan B for sure we should take them out perchin but Kalebs only good for a short trip.

[splashhopper]