Thursday Child- Eric

Ask a 14-year old boy what they like to do for fun, and most will tell you video games, watching movies or texting with their friends.

But not Eric.

This teenager is all about the great outdoors.
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Fly fishing isn't my type, it's just really hard for me to do all the little gadgets."

Rod fishing is his real passion. Eric is quick to point out that open reel is the easiest. He compares it to automatic versus stick shift.

"the closed reel is, you just press a button and cast, you don't have to hold the line, but this kind of reel is the best kind of reel because you just, it's more sturdy."

Eric did a lot of fishing, as well as hunting and canoeing at summer camp up north. He explained how to get there.

"you go down the cove for the first night and then you go up the cove that side and then down and around to Birch Island. And you get to camp on the island, we had the crummiest campsite there."

Turns out it was on rocks and on a hill. Eric says he made the best of the situation anyway by going...

"frog hunting. We would kill frogs and eat the legs.

"they taste like chicken."

This is actually Eric's second time as a Thursday's Child. We first featured him in May of 2008. At that time, Eric was a die hard Red Sox fan.

"yeah, now I like the Yankees.

Did you just wake up one day and say, 'i'm going to root for the Yankees?

Yeah

Really...

And I like the New York Giants too."

When he's not rooting for those other teams...

"I like to cook."

Eric tells me that pies are his speciality...

"chocolate graham cracker pie."

He's looking forward to cooking, as well as camping, fishing and hunting with a family to call his own.

"A mom and a dad, a baby brother, not a baby sister."

I asked him why...

"'Cause they're cute."

Eric says "forever" is what he really wants.

"I've moved around 8 or 9 or 10 families. And I just don't want to move anymore. I want to be with a permanent family and stay there."
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