Personal Narrative: Catching My First Salmon

Catching My First Fish
Have you ever caught a salmon? If you have then you know then they put up a fight. This is how I caught my first salmon.

It was a cool afternoon and I was about 9 years old, I was casting an orange spinner, under the bridge at Black River. I was getting tired of fishing because I haven’t caught anything all day.

I was slowly reeling in the lure back up to the bank of the river. I had a hit! I tried to set the hook, but I didn’t set the hook in time. I sighed and then reeled the lure in the rest of the way, and then casted again, in the same spot where I got the hit. Then I slowly started reeling the lure in again. This time I was prepared, bump... bump.... Bump… zzzzzzzzz, the fish hit the lure. This time I set the