Mustang Sally at the Country Fest

Last night Mustang Sally performed at the Country Fest. I know this picture is not very good from my phone, but the lead singer is sporting a Cory Luebke jersey. Cory had a great day on the mound for the Padres and the crowd went nuts when she said his name.

Hayden enjoyed all the rides at Country Fest this weekend. 

He enjoyed watching the motorcycle show and petting 

the animals at the petting zoo. He placed 2nd in the big wheel race 

out of 30 kids in the four year old division. 

When I get home from work tonight he will probably ask me like last year

 how many more days until the Country Fest?

DeMange Sisters Singing at Katie's Wedding

This past weekend the DeMange Sisters sang Ave Maria at my cousin Katie's wedding.
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Ave Maria by the DeMange Sisters

The Only Way To Scale Fish !

I have two videos below of my father Bob demonstrating how he scales all of the fish we catch. I had to break it up into two videos because of the 6 minutes it takes to scale them. This scaler can do about 70 fish in seven minutes. 

A Trip to Cincy

This past weekend we took a trip to Cincinnati to root on our beloved Reds. We took the tour of the stadium and went through the Hall of Fame. I highly recommend taking the tour which includes admission to the HOF and for an extra $5 you can watch batting practice. If you have little kids you can almost guarantee they will get a ball from a home run or a player during batting practice. Between Dave Borchers and myself we came away with five balls including a bomb from Joey Votto. 

The Reds won the game later that night 8-2.

Time To Hit The Beach !

This past Memorial Day Weekend Hayden enjoyed Cottonwood Lakes Beach and some swimming at Indian Lake. With the temperature in the mid 90's I was pretty jealous of him swimming in the lake.

The fishing this past weekend the fishing was sweet !  My in-laws Dave and Nicki Borchers let me and my father take some bluegills out of their pond just outside of Russia. The picture attached shows the fish we caught in about 2 hours time. I know it is hard to tell from the picture, but these bluegills were all as big as my hand.

I also did some fishing at Cottonwood Lakes again this weekend and caught about 150 small crappie and bluegills.

Yeah God ! What a beautiful morning/weekend to fish.

This is what I was looking at 6:00 Saturday morning as I started my day at Cottonwood Lakes. I spent a wonderful night with my son Hayden and my mother Betty in the camper and then got up at the crack of dawn to enjoy nature.
Friday night dad I and pulled in 71 crappie and bluegill (1 catfish), Saturday we only fished for 45 minutes and caught 25. Sunday night my brother Dale and his son Calen joined dad and I. We fished for two hours and took home about 80 fish. I will show a video of my dad's scaler that can scale all these fish in about 7 minutes in one of my future blogs.

Hayden's First Fish Of The Year !

Hayden received a new Disney's Cars fishing pole from the Easter Bunny this year and got to try it out at Cottonwood Camp Ground (Camperground as Hayden likes to call it.). This Bluegill latched on to his wax worm about 10 minutes into our fishing trip and he pulled him in all by himself. After he caught the Bluegill he had enough and headed back to my parents camper where he is in hog heaven watching movies from the top bunk bed.

I have only been out fishing about 3 times this year because of the weather, but have done pretty well so far. Dad and I caught 90 fish the first time out and over 50 the second time out. I went alone for about hour and caught 15 crappie the other night using a head lamp. I sure hope the weather improves soon so that we can get back out and catch some more fish while they are spawning.