Fishing or Grandchild?

OK guys, I have a problem. My daughter is giving birth to our first grandchild on May 27th. I have reservations for that week for my semiannual trek to Lake Pepin. Do I change the reservation or come up anyway and have the cell phone on in the boat and make a quick trip back to Chicago when she starts labor? I told my wife that we had the reservations before she got pregnant anyway

Is her due date May 27??? Have her induced a week early.

If that doesnt work-stay home with your daughter. There will always be more fishing trips, your 1st grandchild is born only once in a lifetime. Your new grandchild wont care, but your daughter and son-in-law will appreciate you caring enough to be there.

obviously you take her WITH you. … a good rough day in the boat will induce… just have her hang in there till you have got your limits….. and zap her over to the Doc… (I mean Dr!! )… or if you are lucky her Dr likes to fish… invite him AND her to go along…… she has the baby in the boat!… (and then your entitled to an extra limit right?) problem solved…..

What do you do with a fella who’s got it all figured out??? LOL! Well, there’s not much you can do……………..unless you’re a “Pup”………………..there’s just no solution to being the victim of a good ankle bite!

Prayers for you and yours and that all will be as you desire!

Here I was trying to figure this one out until I read rivereyes idea. Ken. You are brillent. A extra limit. What a bonus. Time spent with the family. Great. Now if you could just get the rest of the family to see things this way.

grandchild definately, shouldn’t even be a question

think you’d better go family first on this one, but it reminded me of a time many many years ago:::

My (then) wife (ex-now) was at least 8 months pregnate down in Oklahoma, I got home from work and wanted to go check all my Trot lines at my local catfish lake and she wanted to go, NO Problem Man. We went up to the lake and launched my old bass boat into the protected harbor. Those boats back in the early 70’s were narrow and had front seat steering, the steering in your left hand and throttle and gears in your right, so your passenger was in the back seat. and I momentarily forgot that in OK. the wind ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS BLOWS. we motored out from the dock nice quiet flat water, I looked back smiling and confident, with the wind blowing over head, and I shot through and under the railroad tressle directly into a 25 knot headwind blowing directly into the bridge, WHITE CAPS EVERYWHERE. We hit the first one and went over that comparitively easily, the bow went down between the waves and the next white cap came completely into the boat, remember I’m in the front seat. I’m now soaked and trying to think of something fast. I glanced quickly around and my wife has both hands with a death grip on the side gunnels, and screaming, “turn this BITCH AROUND”. Those were my thoughts exactly, but I hadn’t thought of HOW yet. It only took one wave and I was back to idling into the wind, I picked out a wave and as we rode up the front of it, it kicked hard left turn and power to push the back around quickly, and hey it WORKED. I got both Bitches turned around. We were now going down wind, surfing my boat at a rapid rate and now I had to shoot the gap between the train bridge pilings (in a crosswind), allowing for the fast drift, We got through it, and back into the calm flat harbor (all those years flying Army helicopters came through). I put the boat in neutral and turned around in my seat to check on the little lady. Well let’s just say IF LOOKS COULD KILL , (she was soaked also)I’d be a dead man , and I would never have been able to luck into the Minnesota good life. Our first son was born in two weeks. So there is your solution. Stay home and be happy. Jack

Grandchild first, Second, keeping peace in the family, third, teaching grandchild how to fish ! Life is just full of rewards !! I love being a Granpa !!!

Richard (Smitty)

Keep a tight line !!!

Thanks for all of the sage advice!! I know that I will have to stay home and wait for another time. I do like the idea of another limit though . Is the baby included in the limit??