Fishing for bullheads at Birch Bay

So Raph brought a couple fishing rods down to Birch Bay so the kids could try their hand at catching some bullheads. A great pasttime I enjoyed doing with my cousins when we were growing up. I have many fond memories of fishing off the rocks on the beach with weiners and then when the weiners would run out we would cut up one of the bullheads and use that for bait - probably a suggestion from our mothers (who by the way did the same thing!). This particular weekend the tide was up to the wall so the kids were able to fish right off the wall every night. Gabe waited patiently all day long to fish - although I guess asking every 10 minutes if he could go fishing is not really patiently waiting. It quickly turned into who could catch the most fish or the biggest fish and they had their Dad working hard casting the lines and taking out the hooks.

Raph had them well trained to "watch the bobber".

This was by far the biggest bullhead which Declan caught and was very impressed with himself.