Learning fishing safety, the hard way

“Grandpa, can we go fishing?” This was sweet music to a retired man’s ears, floating over the cell phone airwaves on a sunny Saturday morning a week ago. An hour later, we were peacefully drowning worms in Liberty Centre Pond in North Liberty — my 7- and 9-year-old grandchildren and me — and life was good. The kids were happy. They had finally started baiting their own hooks and had made it through Grandpa’s usual lengthy fishing safety […]