One Last Fishing Trip Before School
It was Leon’s idea, and it was a good one. Never miss an opportunity to take a kid fishing, and “charity” begins at home. Leon Mears, of Mannford, and I have grandsons, Barrett (“B”) Andrews and Lane (“Rooster”) Webster of Sand Springs, playing on the same youth league baseball team. One day towards the end of this year’s season, at the ballpark, hot July, Leon suggested we take the boys fishing before school started. We agreed that right before school started in August would be an optimum time. The year’s last freedom for a couple of twelve-year-olds, an essence Leon and I understood well, still being twelve years old ourselves. Last week, we picked a day to meet at Keystone Ramp on Lake Keystone. A fishing trip with Leon as captain is really a “hunt” of sorts. First you hunt live bait with a cast net, and then you hunt secret brush piles with a depth sounder/fish locator. Trips with Leon are always fun for me outside the angle of actually catching fish. I can’t ever remember a ...