We went fishing up in the mountains, our son who loves to eat fish but usually gets bored decided to try out his new Dock Demon fishing pole. As you can tell in the pictures it was a nice day but a little chilly. On his second cast he caught a Brook Trout. Nothing special in his size but it was his first fish. Once he fought the "monster" and landing it I went to get the hook out. When I grabbed the fish I thought he had a night crawler in his mouth with the hook. After getting the hook out and trying to dislodge what was caught in his throat I was shocked to see it was a little Chorus Frog. He was quite stunned but alive. We decided to let it stay on the bank by us and let it be free. The little frog "Lucky Hopper" stayed by my son for 2 hours while we fished. When we were done fishing and I was drying off from getting my wife's lucky lure un snagged on rock (luckily it wasn't as deep as the last time and you can tell by the look on my face the water wasn't very warm) the frog was still sitting there. My son wanted to keep it since he saved it from the big mean viscous predator of the brook trout he caught. We explained how it is better for them to stay in their habitat but in the end he won out and we brought it home. Once home we bought a setup for him and placed him in it. All was fine and then one night he was gone. We looked and looked and figured he had gone dormant and buried himself to rest. Later as we were cleaning we found him in the floor drain in our basement. How he got there we don't know. He had to sneak his way past Meeko our dog and Clinker our cat who sleeps in the room he was in. He was happy chasing spiders and what other bugs our in our basement. After we got him back in his habitat we setup I decided to make it more escape proof. Since then he has been very happy eating the worms and spiders we catch to feed to him. Just yesterday we got to watch him stalk a daddy long led and eat it. It was quite a feet to see him slowly sneak up on it and then pounce. We couldn't believe how fast he sprung and swallowed the spider. Then he sat there with the legs sticking out of its mouth and seemed to smile at us. Our kids love to go fishing with us and we spend as much time in the mountains as we can. With our paddle boards and our kayaks we will have many more stories to share. We also love to spend time snow shoeing when there is snow here (they don't call it the snowy range because the name is pretty).
More to come soon. ENJOY
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