MY FIRST MATE
Owen Chandler Blake
joined our family when he was 13-months old.
Owen would rather be on the water than anywhere else so he helps
me on the boat when he's not in school and says he wants to
be a fishing guide some day.
He baits hooks, nets
fish, gets lines untangled or un-hung
from the cover and if you're not watching your pole close
enough he'll snatch it up for you - "just can't help it".
He doesn't get to fish
when I have a full crew but goes on plenty
of "scouting" trips with our other guides or me and he's caught
some pretty nice fish over the years. Here are a few of them:
Redear
Shellcracker
A Hybrid Crappie and a White Crappie
A Largemouth Bass
A Big Ole Crappie
A Walleye
A
Chain Pickerel
Black Crappie
16.5-inch/2-pound, 6-ounce Crappie
15-pound Striper
13-pound, 5-ounce Striper
11-pound, 4-ounce Channel Cat
he caught on a Crappie Pole
4-pound, 9-ounce Largemouth Bass - "on the wall" at the marina
White Crappie
"I can hold them up!"
Dinner!
Bass, Crappie and Bream caught while fishing with his friend, Taylor
A mess caught while fishing with Big Brother, Emmett
and his cousins
and Uncle Scott
and Aunt Jo
Smallmouth Bass