The narrator went on a trip to Maine with their mom. They saw wildlife like coyotes and moose from the car. When they arrived at the cottage, the narrator went fishing and caught a large perch that put up a big fight. The narrator played with some neighboring kids, including some from Japan, and told them about catching the big fish.

1. One morning I was at my dads house, when my mom called
and said that were all packed to go to Maine. I asked her if my
suitcase was all set and she said “yup its all ready for ya”. Then
she told dad and I to meet her at the covered bridge, that goes over
the Connecticut River (which is also the longest wooden covered
bridge in the U.S.A, it’s also the longest 2 span covered bridge in
the world).
When we got to the covered bridge there a lot of people and
tourists taking lots of pictures of the bridge and the river. When I
was done looking at all the people taking pictures, dad said to me to
have lots of fun for him, take lots of pictures and catch lots of fish.
Dad and I had to wait a little while because mom had to make sure
that she got everything and lock all the doors and make sure the
cats had food, after a while mom showed up with the car all packed
up and ready to go. I was very excited to go to Maine for a whole
week with just my mom for a week. When we where have way I out
the window of the car and saw a big pontoon boat that was white
and had one big green stripe going down trough the middle of the
boat on each side, it was going on a very nice dark blue river, but

2. the river wasn’t all dark blue. It had a little hint of light blue to, so it
was riding on very nice river.
The next thing I saw when I was looking out the window, a little
up the road form the river, was a great big coyote. It looked like it
had got in to lots of fights with other coyotes or other animals. The
next thing I saw was a moose with a giant wrack on the top of its
head. It’s fur looked like a light milk chocolate bar with a hint of
white. I could hear it calling to its friends, the call sounded like
someone holding their nose and doing a silly noise. When I saw
him, I thought I was going to explode with excitement. When we
finally got to the little cottage mom and I got out and stretched. The
mom went to the door and unlocked it so that we could start to
unpack the car. We settled in and went to bed.
The next day we went to rent a pontoon boat, but first mom
and I had to get our fishing licenses. We returned to the cottage on
the pontoon boat and were trying to figure out how we could get the
car back to the cottage. Then mom and I got our fishing supplies,
grabbed our worms, and went out into the lake. First mom caught a
salmon, and then she caught a white-bellied shark fish. Then I got
a bite, and I could tell it was a big one! My fishing pole was bent

3. because the fish was so big. I started reeling faster and faster, and
then I could see it was a big fish! I called mom and told her, “I got
one!” I could tell it was a big one because she was fighting up a
storm. It was so hard to real here in. When I finally got her out of
the water, it was a giant mother perch! She was about a foot long,
and two inches wide. She was gray and had black stripes down the
side from top to bottom. She was glistening in the little bit of sun
that we had. She was breathing hard because she put up quite a
fight. I jumped with glee, and I expressed that glee ignoring that I
clothes and that the water going to be cold, I ran and jumped off of
the boat into the water for the victory of the awesome catch!
Unfortunately that was only big fish that I caught. I let my
catch go, started up the boat, drove it back to the dock and docked
the boat. When we got back to the cottage I met up with a few
friends. Our next-door neighbors were friends of the owner of the
cottage that we were staying in. The kids that were with them were
from Japan. I started talking to one of them and ask if she liked
Pokemon, and she replied, “I love Pokemon”. We then started to
play, have fun and swim. I told them that I caught a big fish, and

4. they asked about the kind of fish it was. I told them it was a mother
perch.
When it was time to leave, I said goodbye to my friends. We
had one last swim and played around and then I left. We stopped
at McDonald’s for lunch. We stopped by an antique store that was
made out of a barn, and went home. We got out stuff out of the car,
unpacked, went inside and mom watched T.V while reading a
magazine and I played on my Nintendo. I thought that the fish that I
caught wasn’t the only fish I would catch that was that big. In the
future I dream to break my record of catching my first big fish.