Fishing with the boys

Started the day off at 4:00 IN THE MORNING!!! I was actually surprised at how fast I got up and out of bed... that NEVER happens! :) Let's just say I love my sleepy time! We picked Mark up and headed down to Newport Harbor. We were the first ones in line to get on the boat. Loren and Mark both got their poles out and started casting off the dock.

Loren was casting and got his fishing wire all tangled up so....
Mark had to help him untangle it! :)

The boat we were on was the Patriot. It was an awesome boat. We had gone on a chartered trip through the high school so we only had about 30 people on board, which made it really easy to cast and have elbow room. We would take off at 6:30 and head out to Catalina Island for some really great fishing... or so we were told! :)

After taking off the first Catch of the Day went to Mark. What a beaut! Seaweed! Can't beat that!

On the way there it was cold. I was a little miserable! I really wanted the sun to come out! It was overcast and misty!
Mark's Mom called. Loren thought we needed to capture a Mark and his Mom moment!

It was a long boat ride! We got a little silly on the way there. I took a picture of Loren just standing there, then Mark and I started doing push-ups on the railing of the boat and squats.

Family portrait! I took this one... It's a wall-hanger!

Mark thought he could take a better one!

Loren caught a sheepshead! It was so cool. I'd seen one the year before while we were snorkling in the bay at Catalina, but they had been telling us all morning that they are pretty hard to catch.

One of the crew guys on the boat was helping everyone take their fish off the line and putting it into their bags. We all got numbers when we got on the boat. We had Potato sack-bags assigned to us with those numbers and the fish you caught were placed into the bags.

Loren grabbed the fish for a photo op and as I took the picture the fish started to wiggle and Loren dropped it. So this is mid-drop!

There we go! That's more like it!

The Sheepshead has TEETH!! Crazy Fish!!

Not too long after that catch, Loren caught a WOPPER!! A Beautiful Bonita! He was so proud! We were for sure going to win the jackpot for the biggest fish caught!

My proud hubby and his fish! A little boy about 10 or 11 caught a Bonita as well, and his was about a tenth of an oz. heavier than Loren's so he won the jackpot! We were happy for him. He was so excited!

After a 2 hour boat ride over and a 6 hour day of fishing it was time to head on back. So what do you do with the time? Take More Pictures of Course!!!!

The Boys started getting silly and messing around. So I caught them in the action!

Best Friends Forever!

Pulling into the Harbor we had to get a picture of the three of us together! We arrived back at 6:00pm. We had a great time. Loren had caught his two fish, Mark had caught 2 Calico Bass and I had caught a big wopping NOTHING, but I still had a blast!

Two boys, their bags of fish, their poles and tackle boxes in hand = great picture!