Why didn't anyone warn me?!?!

[LivinTheDream]

It goes quick. Our son started college this year at University of Tampa. Enjoy the family time as much as you can. Fishing will always be there.

I second that thought. While I paddled around a small state park lake in PA for the first time in 15 years this weekend all by myself, I was struck with an overwhelming sense of sadness as I passed a spot that I recognized as a place where I fish with my son and little girls and launched our canoe to fish with the kids. The youngest is a senior in high school now and my son is grown and married. The memories are beyond special, but those days are gone. Now I fish mostly with old guys.

I will say that my spirits were lifted substantially with these catches:
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I was looking for dinner, but I wouldn't kill these.

You will always have big fish, but your little ones only for a little while.

[Slackdaddy]

It goes real quick,
My 14 Y.O. is my fishing/hunting partner,, life doesn't get any better then this
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[harlanbud]

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