Personal Narrative Essay: Ice Fishing

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Ice Fishing It was a very cold day. We were out on the ice fishing. My dad and I were in a fishing tournament. All day we kept getting a whole bunch of little fish and no big ones. We were on Grand lake. There was a lot of people fishing but no one was getting any fish incept littel fish that were illegal. It was five hours into fishing. I started to get a bite. But the bites were to small to to hook the fish. So the fish kept nibbling on it but that was it. Finally half hour after it actually bit the hook and took it. So I set the hook and the game was on! I would reel and let line out to ware out the fish. Then I could finally see the fish in the cloudy water, it was about to be pulled out the hole and then… the line snapped, I

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