| September 21, 2003 |
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| Two nice perch from Saturday. |
| Well, I guess I had a decent enough weekend. I spent a good portion of it out at Rich's place. Went fishing on Saturday out on Lake Bemidji... man that was a fucking dumb decision. It was rather windy, and the water was so choppy that I used up half a tank of gas and nearly sunk my boat, even with the pump on, as I crossed it to fish in the river. Not long after that the wind died down considerably though (figures), but the wind really doesn't matter much on the Mississippi. It's sheltered and not really wide enough to get big waves where I was fishing. I caught 3 nice yellow perch, the larger 2 of which are shown in the picture over on the right. I managed to hook a railroad bridge too, but I couldn't quite land that and it resulted in me breaking my line and losing one of my last steel leaders. After that I just spent the rest of my time on the water going up the river toward the damn, but I didn't make it because I didn't have enough gas. I had to turn around and come back or I would have run out... alas, that will have to wait for another day when there's less wind and a full tank of gas in the boat. |
| After I got done fishing I spent most of the night at Rich's place... I got home around 1 am or so. It was a very entertaing time... Rich (who is the world's best bullshitter and storyteller) actually got one of his nephews to go snipe hunting. The kid went out and stood in the woods in the dark with a bag and flashlight for about 15 minutes, waiting for us to "come drive the snipes to him" which equalled staying back at the house laughing our asses off. He finally came back all pissed... we told him that he didn't wait long enough, that you had to sit out there all quiet so the snipes would get used to you. We didn't quite get him to go back out... I think our laughter spoiled that one. Oh well, it was funny as fuck so I can't complain any. I didn't do much today... slept till about 230 or so, then went out to Rich's. We didn't do much... watched part of some football games, drank some coffee, and talked about fishing and deer hunting. He's interested in buying one of my guns too... I may sell it because I never shoot it. Came back here and I'm working on my site while doing calculus homework. After that I'm going to read in my C++ book before hitting the sack. Cheerio good chaps! |