Went with a friend and his wife to try the fishing at Bitter lake. We get to the park and his wife says she knows someone who lives in the apartments next to the lake, so she dissapears to go visit and we don't see here the rest of the day. We set up on the shore on the west side, as far north as we can go. I cast out with 2 chartreuse powereggs floating half a worm and get a hit in less than 10 minutes. This is the only fish we land all day. Now the funny story.

My friend calls his wife to check in, and the discussion somehow turns to finding out that the people my friend's wife knows have a small boat and can we use it. So we pack up our stuff and get in this boat, that happens to be a very shallow draft converted sail boat. With the wind mildly blowing, it was next to impossible to keep the boat pointed in the same direction, so trolling any lines would get tangled, so we decided just to cast from the boat, paddeling back out to the middle when the wind blew us against the shore.

Another friend showed up after work to join us so we paddled over to the park to meet him. Just so you know, in the 20 minutes it took for our friend to call us to tell us he was here, and us rowing over to him, he managed to cast, lose the top half of his rod, and snap his line so he couldn't reel the top half back in.

As we come toward the shore, we tell our friend to hold on to the front of the boat as we swing it arround. Our friend dosn't just hold the boat, he starts to drag it up the rather steep bank, steep enough that as he pulled up the back of the boat, where I was sitting, wound up underwater. Yelling at him to stop, he changes direction and starts pushing the boat back into the lake, however, with the back of the boat underwater, the boat submarines compleatly swamping the boat. So that is why I got very wet and spent last night drying out my reels and tackel box.

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