wait... where's my bobber?i've never lost so many hooks in a day...

yeah, so fishing this morning... didn't leave the house 'til about 8 (yeah, yeah, but nobody got up on time... it wasn't just me...), but i'm still incredibly tired 'cause i stayed up later than i intended to... stayed online about an hour longer than i'd planned, and then i was on the phone even after i got offline... not that i mind ;p

i definitely haven't been fishing in way too long. i get there, set up, bait the hook... and cast into the tree =/ yeah, who's smart? i did that a few times today... i was never really good at casting sidearm, but... the beginning of today was really, really sad...

anyway, i only lost one hook to the trees... where'd the other four go? (that's right... lost five hooks, caught four fish... wadaya think of that ratio?) two went to this egg-covered log in the water. i wasn't the only one to have lost hooks to that, but i think i'm the only one to have lost two to it... another went to the bass that snapped the lead on my sunfish setup (it's a 4 lb lead, but, um... yeah, we were lazy and didn't retie everything before we went... so... <snap>... oops. the thing just ran away with my small hook...). so there's probably a bass swimming around, sporting a new lip piercing...

the worst one of the day, though, was the last hook i lost, which was to the last fish i caught. i'd just thrown back one sunfish (all i caught, all day... dad got a bluegill... so pretty... i want one for an aquarium ;p), and i recast... and my bobber didn't come back up. i was so confused. it didn't come back up, but there was no struggling... so i just kinda stood there, staring at the water, dumbfounded. about five seconds later, with the bobber still mia, i decide to reel in and check on the setup, and it turns out that a sunfish had swallowed my hook. i assume that it snapped as soon as the bait went into the water (do they even do that?). either way, the hook was gone, and the fish started bleeding profusely when we were examining it. nicked gill, i hope =/ how would i have known to set the hook as soon as i cast? uugh... poor fish.

oh, and funniest quote of the day... "eeew! it's peeing!" (michael, about one of the first fish he caught this morning)