He took out the big powerful light and switched it on. When
Porter shined the light into the water, a fish splashed. More and more fish
jumped.
"Ballyhoo," Porter cooed. "They don't like to
be the center of attention. It scares them.
The ballyhoo leap to get away from the light."
Ballyhoo are fish with long pointed beaks. They look like
swordfish except the ballyhoo have yellow tails. Ballyhoo are about 32 cm long and
come in groups. Everywhere Porter shined the light, at least twenty fish jumped
trying to flee from the beam of attention.
"If someone was in the dingy out there," Porter
mused, pointing the light 100 ft away where approximately fifty ballyhoo jumped
out of the water, "a fish might jump into the dinghy and we could use it
for bait."
Porter read a book about fishing because he is interested in
it. He loves all that he has learned from the book and blurts out facts at
random, if helpful, times. David and Gina posted on our blog that the author, Scott,
has become a 5th member of the family. I agree because Porter starts
a lot of sentences with "Scott says…"
We switched the light on and shined it all around Sila. Fish
jumped; ballyhoo going wild. It was a pretty cool sight. – Jack Rabbit
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