Personal Narrative: The Way We Go Fishing

In which we go Fishing
In Alabama there isn’t very much to do, but something that is common pastime is to fish. Now my granddaughter loved to fish. She would always be drawn to the tiny ponds to just stare at the fish swimming around. One day I had to watch her because her parents were on a business trip, supposedly having dinner with the prime minister of somewhere. When her parents dropped her off, I told her that we were going to do a surprise day trip. The car was all packed and ready to go. I had never done many interesting things like this so this was exciting for me as well. When we finally got to the lake, I pulled out the fishing poles. I rented us a small boat and we started heading out into the water.
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For some reason, they would all go to her and not me. I got curious and ask her to switch rods and seats yet they still went to her. I start to get irritated and just stare at the water for awhile. After a little bit of time passes my granddaughter says something “ I turn my head and I don’t see anything. As I go back to my sulking, she says she sees it again. I turn my head once more and once again I see nothing. I tell her to stop making up stories and just go back to fishing. Then as I sit there staring at the water I see the giant fish go by. I whisper to her to stay quiet and very still and that we are going to cast our lines in the opposite direction and hope that it will get one of our hooks. Unfortunately, it did, of all the fish that passed me by this is the one that took the bait. Once I started reeling it in things started to go wrong. It started moving in circles and taking our boat with it. As it spun us around, we fell into the water and our boat and fishing poles flew into the air. We swam back to shore as fast as we could, but unfortunately because the water was freezing all I caught that day was a