I ran into Glen Conkle last Friday at United Bank and he said he had a fishing tale for me. He knows I always love to hear fishing stories and he had a good one about his grandson, Turner Edmondson. Turner is ten years old and loves to fish.

Glen said he took Turner to a pond in Fayette County but he was not sure there were any fish in it. While he was rigging Turner’s rod and reel, Turner picked up granddad’s outfit, cast the plastic worm out and caught a five pound bass. After landing it he took his outfit, cast out, hooked and landed a six pounder. Then, after a couple of casts, he landed a seven pounder.

They caught 28 bass that day, so there are fish in that pond! Turner really bragged about beating granddad since he caught 15 of them and the biggest ones, too.

No doubt Turner will remember that trip for the rest of his life. He won’t remember the shows he watched on TV, the games he played on his electronics or many of the other things he does for fun. But I bet he always remembers the day he caught three bass over five pounds and beat granddad.

It was great hearing about granddad taking his 10 year old grandson fishing. I saw something on Facebook last week that said “Teach a kid to fish and he will never have enough money to buy drugs.” That is true, but they will also stay so busy fishing they won’t want to do drugs and get into other kinds of trouble.

I know fishing and hunting kept me from getting into a lot more trouble than I did!