Sir Jon's Fishing Trip

While Mike was telling his story he continued sorting and cleaning his tackle. Once he had completed his story he was sure there would would be a flood of questions from Sir Jon. Mike figured he would be questioned extensively on the catfish that got away. Instead the first question from Sir Jon stunned him. Sir Jon asked in his little voice, "Mike, would you take me fishing with you some day?" Mike sat there in disbelief not knowing what to say. Here was an eleven year old boy asking him to take him fishing. Mike had long been involved with some sort of activitiy involving children. As ironic as it may seem. One of the first things he did with kids was fishing. When he was growing up he used to take several of the local boys fishing who had no father or brother to take them. Sometimes he would even take them on overnight camping trips. He looked at Sir Jon andd said, " I would be honored to have you join me on on of my daily fishing trips." Sir Jon sat there trying to hold back tears. Just as Mike and Sir Jon were finishing up they noticed someone coming up the front walk. It was Paul, Sir Jon's dad. Sir Jon was bouncing all over the place at the prospect of going fishing with Mike. Mike shook Paul's hand and chatted with him for a couple moment. They could see Sir Jon was bursting at the seams with his news. Mike told Paul that Sir Jon had something he really wanted to talk to him about. Sir Jon asked if it would be ok for him to go fishing with Mike. Mike said, "Paul if your not busy why don't you come along with us and the three of us will make a day of it. " Paul quickly agreed which made Sir Jon very happy. Now he would be fishing with both his dad and Adventurer Mike at the same time.