Today the GBH had it most easy at my pond. Usually as soon as he or she sets foot on the pond bank and I see it we race down there with the dog and run them off. The herons are hard for the dog to spot from the house. I don't know if his eyesight is that bad or they are just that hard to see but they move even the slightest bit and he can instantly see them and is off like a shot after them.
The kids have been having fun catching big goldfish out of the pond and throw them in our 'livewell' We have an old stainless steel wash machine drum in the shallows. It has a metal shaft sticking out of the bottom so it kind of sets on a diagonal at rest and the opening is pointing to the middle of the pond. There were about 6 fat goldfish in there.
Today I look out the window and the GBH has waded into the deeper water (unusual!) and circled around the wash machine drum till he was on the far side of it and was looking in. His eyes probably got as big as saucers and was like 'Smokes alive! I hit the paydirt!' He paused for a moment to size up his meal and then snagged a huge one out of there. He had to work a bit to flip it around and down it but he probably thought this was the easiest fishing he ever did, fishing out of a livewell!
