{"id":13377,"date":"2015-03-02T15:50:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=13377"},"modified":"2015-03-02T16:16:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T16:16:33","slug":"a-fish-tale%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=13377","title":{"rendered":"A Fish Tale\u2026\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m a proud grandfather of 6 great grandchildren, and I love them all, but one is unique, special, and one dang good fisherman! \u00a0Benjamin Luke Fortney is my oldest grandson, son of Scott and Diane Fortney, Scott is my oldest son. \u00a0I love Hannah, my oldest grand daughter, but her story comes later! \u00a0Today I want to share about Ben!<\/span><\/p>\n

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It probably all started when many years ago the Florida Fortney’s visited us in Kentucky and Scott took Ben fishing at a local stream, the image below says it all, from that day on Ben was a fisherman!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/span><\/a>Ben has gone on to learn a great deal about fishing and living in North Florida he has the perfect playground to practice his craft. \u00a0Ben is a bait fisherman, bait caster, fly fisherman (ties his own beautiful flies!), bass fisherman, fishes with plugs, spinners, worms, and is an avid shore fisherman. \u00a0He has landed single fish that their weight exceeds my life time accumulative weight of fish caught!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ben’s list of fish varieties that he has studied and caught is just about the contents of \u00a0any good fish book out there.<\/span><\/p>\n

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His next big category is a hammerhead shark. \u00a0You must catch and release them, and I know he will, but his goal is at least a 10 footer. \u00a0No doubt I’ll get a iPhone image soon showing that catch!<\/span><\/p>\n

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His room is decorated with a bewildering assortment of rods, reels and fishing lures and he proudly displays some of his great great grandfathers classic wooden plugs and some of the fish his great great grandfather and \u00a0great grandfather caught and had mounted.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Ben is shown to the left holding his latest reel acquisition, a deep sea rod and reel made just of the \u00a0 \u00a0big fish he is going after this spring. \u00a0Ben is a great young man, a good student and real man of his word. \u00a0 I’m proud to call him my grandson, and I sure wish he would teach me to fish!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Being a grandfather is an awesome treasure and great responsibility! \u00a0I try to spend as much time as \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I can with my grand children and pass on some of the life lessons I’ve learned over the past half \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0century plus 19 years. \u00a0Fortunately for me my grandchildren still listen and I truly enjoy their company! \u00a0Now if Ben could just help me catch a 12 pound bass!!! \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I’m blessed,<\/span><\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n

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I apologize for the image quality, all iPhone 4s \u00a0wish I had used my Fuji X100T!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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  I’m a proud grandfather of 6 great grandchildren, and I love them all, but one is unique, special, and one dang good fisherman! \u00a0Benjamin Luke Fortney is my oldest grandson, son of Scott and Diane Fortney, Scott is my oldest son. \u00a0I love Hannah, my oldest grand daughter, but her story comes later! \u00a0Today […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13377"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13411,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377\/revisions\/13411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}