[RKDinOKC]

The taking Dad to visit his roots part sounds good. The one last time part not so much.

The last time I took my Dad fishing we only had a canoe. The son of a gun dumped us over in the middle of the huge pond we were fishing and lost all our fishing tackle. If the stringer hadn't been tied to the canoe we would have lost our catch. Had to swim the canoe with my Dad holding on to the closest bank. Build a fire to warm him back up. Then while he was warming paddle the canoe back to where my 4x4 was parked and 4x4 around to fetch him up. He wasn't getting back in that @$#! death trap were his words.

My nephew and I thought we were giving him an opportunity to have some fun since he loved fishing. Usually from boats on lakes and ponds. And we did catch quite a stringer full before he tumped us into the drink. The big pond was well stocked with bass and crappie. We did have a good ol fashion fresh fish fry for dinner when we got home.

Think Dad enjoyed it and may have dumped the canoe on purpose. It was just too bad about not being able to retrieve the rods and tackle. My nephew and I tried. Too deep to dive and couldn't snag any of it. We quit trying when we snagged up a big ol snappin turtle.