For my 9th birthday, we went for a drive. We parked the car and went to the boat ramp and there was a charter boat...
How to catch a fish
1. Put your rod at 6 o'clock.
2. Open the cage until the line does not come out any more and close the cage and put it to twelve o'clock.
3. While doing that, reel 2 times and put it to 90 degrees without having slack.
4. Wait until the rod curves and then yank up and reel up when slack or when the fish tires itself out.
This was all a secret for me and two days before my birthday my parents wanted me to take motion sickness pills and that made me wonder about on January 29 when they told me there was a surprise birthday present and I said, "are we going to an amusement park?" and my dad said "sort of," and that made me wonder about a lot of ideas and then on my birthday we drove to a surprise location to do a surprise thing for a surprise birthday present.
After we went to our second fishing spot my mom was only catching small stuff so she had to use the lucky charm of biting the head off a live SHRIMP! It looked disgusting but she said the only thing that was disgusting was that it squirmed in her mouth.
I caught a mackerel and flounder and my dad caught 2 sheepshead and the captain (Captain Mark) caught a mackerel.
@maureenmazumder we ate them
happy birthday, felix! that sounds like quite an adventure (within an adventure). your mom is a boss for those shrimp shenanigans you left me wondering what you did with the fish you caught...