Day three

Here is a good picture of the ski boat tied up next to the houseboat. On the second night Taylor and I were playing with our underwater light at the back of the boat. We threw out a minnow net and caught a minnow. I put the minnow on a hook and we watched it drag the sinker around. We got tired of watching the minnow and went to bed.

That night we kept hearing something thump the boat. We couldn't figure out what the noise was. In the morning Kerry and I got up and went to investigate what would make the thumping noise every once in a while.
This is what was on the end of the line. I am glad that I put the pole through the railing. It was the pole catching the reel on the railing that was making the thumping noise. I almost lost my rod and reel to this catfish! I really didn't expect to catch anything this size.
I didn't think to measure it. We weren't planning on doing anything with it so we released it as quickly as possible so as not to harm the poor thing. The fishing gloves came in handy.
We have a surface supplied air system so we can dive without scuba tanks. We spent a little time cleaning up the bottom of the cove that we were parked in. We didn't even scratch the surface on the cans and bottles at the bottom. Kerry spotted the anchor with 4 feet of chain attached. It is worth about 40 dollars. Taylor cleaned up two pair of the sunglasses we found and was wearing a pair around. Only other thing in the bunch of trash was two golf balls. I forgot to bring the metal detector so we only found things that were obvious.