National Boating and Fishing Week

So I am very excited about national boating and fishing week (June 4-12) this year for three reasons and here they are.

Reason number one, is I will be taking my wife fishing on either both the 4th and 5th of June as these are the free fish days here in the state of Massachusetts.  She is the reason I starting a blog and I plan on taking her fishing one or both of these days, as a little you share my hobby I share yours thing.  There are a couple nice ponds we can picnic at and she and I will spin fish from the shore.

Reason number two comes from the fact that we already have some plans for that week.  We have an event in New York City early in the week and we will be going there by way of Sarah's parents place in CT.  Which means I'll be fishing here in MA and CT, but it does not end there because my sister graduates high school at the end of the week.  This means Sarah and I will be traveling to PA as well and I plan to have a rod and reel on that trip as well.

Reason number three plays off of the fact that I will be in PA.  While I am in PA with my family I will be able to ask my mom and/or dad to go fishing with me like I did as a little kid.  We have not fished together in years and I think it would be nice to fish with them again.  They are the ones who taught me to fish and who bought me my first fly rod, so maybe I will even try to teach them some fly fishing skills.

So that is my plan for national take me boating and fishing week, what is yours? 

-Bruce

Outfitted for life

OBN's writing prompt this week is actually something I addressed in my very first post.  I decided before just linking to my old post and calling this an easy one I would read the post.  Now that I read it I think I will do more then just link to it.

Outfitted For Life:   Outfitted for Life, the name came from Sarah (my wife), and it took only minutes of thinking about it for me to jump on board with that name. I love it for many reasons, the biggest of all the reasons is the fact that it leaves me lots of room to work with.  The room to do more then just fishing post is still very appealing to me.  I like sharing my hikes, and hope to get back to hunting.  Also want to try some new sports such as bouldering, long distance hiking, and maybe even buy a mountain bike someday. 
 

So the story that came to mind in that first post was one of my bother and I getting ready for a hunt.  I have not told as many stories as I want to but going back and looking at why I picked the title I think I will try to tell more old stories.  Here is that first story of why the title Outfitted for Life was a good choice.

This story was the first that came to mind when the title of the blog was made final. It takes me back to high school, it was the first hunting season I could drive. My parents okayed my brother and I to go hunting alone for what I think was the first time. We planned to hit a spot we hunted small game, and later on in our hunting adventures became a great waterfowl spot. Well we were packing up the guns and mom was giving us the be safe, look out for each other, and if your going to be late call speech. My mom looked us up and down, she cracked a half a smile and said well boys you look the part, and then wished us luck as we ran to the car guns, ammo and packs in hand. Between the two of us we were geared to the max for a small game hunt, I guess ever since then I've always tried to look the part if nothing else........ I try to go into every situation especially when it comes to the outdoors "looking the part". Looking the part now there is one of the first lessons if you want to be outfitted for life.   

I still often look the part, whether I mean too or not it just kind of happens now.  Looking back on this and a couple other old posts I have come to realize that my writing, and my stories are getting better.  In an strange way I am really starting to look the part of a blogger, and that is funny on many levels.  Well there you have it that is where Outfitted for Life came from and who knows where it will go.  

-Bruce