All right, so let's start with
you. Do you remember fishing when
you were a little girl?
Yeah. What are some of your memories
that you have of that?
I remember us always
carving our names on the foam door
of the ice shanty
and then I remember our dad
would always bribe us out there with
candy and he would be like,
you can have as much candy as
you want on the boat.
See, when we're fishing,
you don't have to ask me for candy.
You can just have as candy as much
as you like.
And that was pretty good, right?
Yeah. I'm sure you were like, I'll
go on the boat for that.
Yeah, like when we went to Fleet
Farm to pick out bait we could just
pick whatever candy we want and we
could eat that on the boat.
What was your candy?
It depends on the day most of the
time like Milky Way, Twix or like
those bags that have like separate
pieces of candy Those are good.
Right now we have some Kit Kat minis
for fishing
For fishing or for you when you're
fishing?
For fishing.
Okay,
so what's your favorite kind of fish
to catch?
I would probably say I
like catching Northern
because I would ideally
want a Northern to be on the wall
and it's just like it's fun to
fight it and like get it in
the boat and like so then you
don't have to like you can cast
and then once one starts going it's
like a big thing and then you get to
real it is really fun
What's that feeling like when you
can really feel him fight?
It's like,
I don't know what's gonna happen,
it's probably gonna fall off and
then if it does, it is my fault!
What if it's a big matter?
I don't know!
And then it ends up being a little
tiny boogaloo.
Have you ever run the net or
are you always the one real in the
net?
Me and Sage switch off who's
reeling it in, and then sometimes if
I, like today, like I'll be like,
I wanna net it this time, and then
we'll just grab the net and net it.
But sometimes my dad will wanna net
or if he can tell it's like a really
big one, he'll be like, no,
I'm netting this one.
Because he wants to make sure it
gets in the-
Yeah
For you, is it more fun to
like be fishing?
Is it just about being out on the
boat or what do you enjoy about it?
I like the adrenaline
and just like catching
a fish and it's like oh
my gosh there's a fish on the boat
and then like you also feel
productive while you can just sit
there and talk and wait and
so it's you're waiting for a fish,
and then mid-sentence you're like
it's a fish!
Is it surprising each time, right?
Yeah.
So we noticed a few times that
it took your bait, right?
Yeah. You get frustrated with the
fish then?
Well, no, it's just more of a
like, now I have to put another
worm on.
But you're okay with that?
Yeah, I mean at least that means
there's fish over there.
And sometimes it would be that I
would cast it bad and it would fall
off.
So, you also have
a mount around your neck.
Mm-hmm.
And what was, do you remember the
story for that?
Yeah, so um
our family friends came over
and I was just like the only
one fishing off the pier and it was
like really late August and they
were biting really really good that
day and there's a
bunch of all the Mayflies were out
and so I would well maybe this
spring then I don't know but I took
a Mayfly and I kept putting them on
and then the fish would kept biting
and I had a bucket full of so
many fit like little bluegills and
then like I a nine.
One and a half nine and a Half
and then I'm like dad can I mountain
can I mounting he's like you know
what? It's supposed to be ten, but
if you can catch a nine and three
quarters. I'll mount it and
then Mom
one of our family friends picked up
a mayfly and they're like that's the
mayfly And then I
put it on and then the next
fish I caught was a nine three
quarters, and then it got mounted
and so it was like an
hour but not hours,
but like an hour of the prime time
just constantly fishing while
everyone was just over there
talking.
Do you ever feel bad for all the
little kids who don't get to go
fishing all the time right off the
dock?
Yeah, but then at the same
time it's like, you get to go
fishing so much, it's kind of hard
to imagine not going fishing,
but like, I can't imagine not
go fishing, so.
I didn't see your dad having to
bribe you a candy, right?
No. Like you just go on your own
now? You don't know?
Yeah.
So at what point did you outgrow
that where he had to bribe you to
get you on the boat?
Well, he would
never have to like bribe,
bribe us. It was just the
thing.
Like he wouldn't be like, come on,
get on the boat.
There's gonna be candy.
It would just be like oh yeah, we
get to go get candy while we're
fishing and fishing was really fun.
So we'd say yes, but then it's just
a plus. There's also candy and
like ice fishing, there's always
like a big bag of candy
in the middle of the shack and
then you can just have
candy and it's just.
The thing because we don't eat our
Halloween candy right away like most
families do instead we have a
candy drawer that we put all
of our Halloween candy in and we
just store up all of her candy
and like
if that way it lasts longer.
It lasts longer and we're
not the type of people to just one
night mow down all the candy.
Get sick to your stomach.
Yeah, and then our mom snacks on it
while she's at work too.
I'm sure she's happy to have you
spill the secrets there.
Thank you. Bye.
So do you like boat
fishing or ice fishing?
I would say it
depends on the mood,
but since I've been boat
fishing a lot, right now I would say
I'm in the mood for ice fishing
because it's like
tip up, it's so much more
you don't know what's gonna happen
and you're just sitting there
talking or you can just go outside
and play in the snow and build an
angle and then the flag goes up.
Oh no, gotta run to the flag
in your snow pants and snow boots
without falling over.
And then, like,
you just... See if it's spinning,
grab it slowly, take it
in, and then you feel a snug and
then it's just like, just
go.
Have you been caught in any of her
snow traps out there?
What? She says, your sister says
she sets booby traps for you.
Yeah, it's kind of like a tradition
like once we have a fishery
Once they practically once a
year now like every time on the
fishery I don't know if I did last
year the year before but I would
always fall in one of them
and Then I would have to change out
my boots and I would be soaking wet
It's a good thing you're close to
home, right?
Yeah!
Anything else that you want to add
that you can think of?
Um, not
really.
Okay, can I get you to say and spell
your name for me?
Rayna Haldeman,
R-A-Y-N-A,
H-A L-D-E-M-A
N-N.
And how old are you?
11
Um, and why
did your dad call you Rose?
Rosa?
Is that your middle name? Yeah.
We're all good.