Not only do we celebrate mothers on this Mother’s Day; it’s also fishing opening season for Walley fishing. If you are anything like me, you may wonder why?

I loved my mother, but I also love to fish. So when the government puts both on the same weekend, you wondered what the government was thinking? Then again, anything the government does, doesn’t make a bit of sense.

Mother’s Day should be a special day to honor your mother and the sacrifice they made for you. They carried you 9 months inside their womb. They took care of you when you were a child. They didn’t count the cost. Mothers look after you even when you became an adult. Even mothers who are not with us anymore, still watches over us through their spirit.

Could it be that by putting both on the same weekend, fathers would give mothers a break by taking the kids fishing?

I mean, who doesn’t love to go fishing? You can catch and release or you can catch and eat; whatever you prefer. There’s nothing like a good fish fry; especially by the lake when the fish you caught is still fresh.

It’s hunting, fishing and loving everyday. If I could make a nickel off turning them bass, never worry about the price of gas, I’d be wheeling and dealing and sitting there reeling them in.

There’s nothing like being on the lake fishing. I would rather fish than golf any day. It’s very relaxing just fishing on the lake, being one with nature. It’s so peaceful; unless you have stupid people out there making waves with their speedboat. Those people doesn’t understand being one with nature. All they care about is destroying nature and everything around it.

I’ll never forget when my dad would take us fishing. It was the best time we had with him. It didn’t matter what kind of fish we caught either, Sunfish, Walley, Northern, etc.

I even remember the family going up to Canada on a fishing trip before we needed a passport or birth certificate. We even went fishing at the Lake of the Woods; and the only way to get there was going up to Canada first and then coming down on the tip of Minnesota. I even remembered one time, dad got mom in the boat with us as we were fishing up in Canada. That was the year, I caught an eel. Someone from afar shouted, “they’re good eating!” But my dad ended up cutting the line as the eel was close to the boat instead of bringing it in the boat. Good family memories I would forever cherished.

As Brad Paisley sang in “I’m gonna miss her, he was talking about going fishing instead of spending time with wife/girlfriend. In this blog, I will mention, how I miss my mother now that she has been gone for around 12 years.

As Trace Atkins sang, “You’re going to miss this.”

Treasure the moments you have with your mother while she’s alive. When she’s gone, you will surely miss her.

My parents weren’t the kind to go out on a date to be alone with each other. They were more like to spend it with the family, doing things together as a family, creating memories for us kids. Memories are so much better than actual pictures.

Even though, my mother is gone, I believe that her spirit is watching over me. At times, I feels her presences. I believe that what saved me when I was in a car accident was the fact of three reasons: seatbelt, the airbag, and my mother’s spirit; as her spirit put her arms in front of me before the crash.

I love to fish and I love my mother. I missed my mother very much.