We invited our son, his wife, Quinn and Hermione to go camping. This was Hermiones and Quinns first camping trip ever.
We set up our tents then comenc to fishing.


Leo and Mathew baited the Abu 7000s with Tilapia to fish for alligator gar. While we waited for a bite on the big reels, Leo and I walked along the bank casting 1/32 JIGLYF jigs and caught about a dozen white crappie in less than 2ft of water. Some were starting to get there tuxedos.






At about 7pm we got a bite on the big reels. Our son set the hook and faught it for a while. He caught his first alligator gar for 2024. It measured 74in.

We fished till 2am and had 2 more runs. By then we were ready to hit the sack.

On Sunday we launched the boat and fished along the banks up stream with the same jigs from Saturday and caught 30 crappie and 6 bluegill and one bass.









Bethanys first fish.

All fish caught on JIGLYF jigs except the alligator gar
The alligator gar and all the crappie, the bluegill and bass were released to swim another day. We had a great weekend camping and fishing family. A camping trip of many first

Awesome outing!

Lots of cool smiles ...what it's all about

Beautiful!

Priceless! It just don't get any better!

Living the dream.

Good times!

awesome
do you have a fish fry at camp?

how about that gar
man

Thank you Fishbonz 🙂!

Thanks Vogey🙂!

Thank you trapperben🙂!

Thank you Chuck🙂!

Yes sir!!

Thank you Paparon 🙂 !

No fish fry this time. As for the gar, it was released to swim another day.