A Fish Tale

   This story was spotted and I should have known it was too good to be completely good. It involves a kid who is actually outside and he is alone. He is fishing. Not from the shore, but from a kayak. He lands a big one. A salmon from Lake Huron. The family has a nice salmon dinner. He looks happy.

   I find it refreshing that these parents let their 12-year-old outside and that he must have chosen to be there - out on Lake Huron in a kayak. In Lake Huron, where there was actually a fish. Not inside, watching video games. 

   Now, if you are a parent, you may think I am joking about the above, since items in this blog are often presented facetiously. Particularly if you are what I perceive to be a 'typical' parent, who might think the behaviour of the parents of this pre-teen, borders on the criminal. How could they allow their child to be outside and alone? And in a kayak. On a lake.

   Well, as I said, I found the tale to be a refreshing one and congratulate both the boy and his parents. It would have been a perfect one, but there was one small spoiler spotted and I present it at the very end of the account. 

"Jack Taylor reeled in a 20.5 pound king salmon over the weekend on Lake Huron. Incredibly he made the catch while in a kayak off Ipperwash Beach....
“It was on a little bait caster rod, it wasn’t a rod meant for that type of fight,” said Jack. “It took me about 20 minutes to get in. I had a small net, and I only got the head of the salmon in so I had to gill him and pull him up in my kayak. I dragged him up and had to head to shore to wait for my dad to come.”
Jack said he’s now caught three fish in his kayak but this was the biggest.
“I fish about three times a week now probably because of COVID,” he said. “The biggest fish that I’ve caught was with my uncle on Lake Ontario. It was a 27 pound salmon that went out about 600 yards.”
As for the fish he reeled in Saturday, Jack and his family had a delicious smoked salmon dinner."
And here is the spoiler: 
Jack said he was relaxing watching Netflix on a mobile device when his reel began to quickly unspool.

  I am not giving up on young Jack; perhaps he was watching a Jacques Cousteau documentary.

Source:
"12-year-old Lands 20 Pound Salmon in Kayak on Lake Huron,"
By Josh Boyce, BlackburnNews.com, April 16, 2021.