Friday, April 16, 2010

Fishing

It's 5:30 in the afternoon. I'm just getting off of work. I walk out the doors of the business that I work at located in a small town located in southwestern Minnesota. The day is finally over and now I get to go enjoy the rest of my day. Quickly, I leave the shop and jump in my truck. I drive up to the local gas station and fill my truck up and grab a piece of pizza along with a couple other things. Then I get back into my truck and head out of town to pick up a buddy of mine. Earlier we had made plans to go fishing. I pull up to his house and we put his fishing pole, tackle box, and cooler in the box of the truck. Now we're off to my house to grab my pole, tackle box, bucket and anything else we might need. We check the bait that we had bought to use a few days ago, but sure enough, all of it was dead. O well, we have PowerBait! We get back into the truck and drive down the road headed for the lake that we have heard of some fish biting at. On the way we discuss a few things, including our bet for the night. The bet was decided to be for the first fish caught, first keeper, and biggest keeper. For each of these we would give the other a $1 scratch off lottery ticket. That gave us the chance to win $3 of lottery tickets which could possibly give us even more money. As we pull up to the lake we notice something we hadn't really thought about earlier when we made the plans. It was pretty windy out. Earlier in the day is was dead calm so we thought it would be a great day to go fishing. We didn't realize that the wind had picked up more than we thought it did. We see the waves but we go fishing anyways. We got there just in time because as soon as we get out another truck pulls up and the people get out to get some fishing in too. The spot we decided to fish on had water washing over it quite a bit whereas the other day we went fishing when it was calm, there was no wind so it was a pretty dry area. It was a good thing that I had worn my waterproof boots that I still had on from work. I walked out into the little crick and stood on a couple rocks where the water was just washing over my feet. My buddy stood up on a big rock on the edge because he didn't have waterproof boots on. We casted out multiples of times. I caught the first fish. A small crappie. That meant I got a dollar scratch off. Next, my buddy caught a few more small crappies and a small sunfish. Also, he had a carp that bit his hook. We almost had it landed but then it snapped his line. When he put the new lure on, he seemed to be having a lot of luck with it. He caught a lot of small crappies. Then he hooked another nice sized fish. This one was a bullhead. He almost had the fish in his hand when it snapped his line. That's two fishing lures that fish had made off with. We spent about another half hour there but didn't have much luck after he lost the second hook. At this point, despite my boots being waterproof, my feet were soaked. There was quite a few waves that washed over the tops of my boots. Right before we decided to leave, I caught another small crappie but we decided to call it quits being as not much was biting. My buddy caught the first and biggest keeper since we had only caught one worthy of keeping. Now I owe him a couple scratch offs. We had a great time just hanging out together and are looking forward to the next time we go back. Hopefully the next time won't be so windy.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Timber Lake Road

Tonight a few of my friends and I are going to a haunted road. This road is actually called Timber Lake Road. We have heard rumors and stories about hauntings that have gone on there and we want to see for ourselves if they are really true or if these people are just yanking our chain. I have heard stories about if from both of my brothers so I am really interested. There are 10 other people that are going to be going with us so obviously we are going to have to take two vehicles. A couple of the people have to leave early anyways so that'll work out just fine.
There are a few different stories that I have heard about the road so I am curious to see for myself. One of the stories is that supposedly when you are driving along the road your brakes won't work. In the midst of your brakes not working, a red Corvette comes out of the ditch and begins to chase you. To prevent it from catching you, you'll drive faster. But you don't have any brakes. Then right at the end of the road, the car will go into the ditch and crash into a tree and then suddenly your brakes will work again right as you come up to a stop sign.
Another story that I have heard about the place is about an old house that used to be up there. Just recently the house started on fire so it had to be torn down and rebuilt. There used to be a woman and her children that had lived there. One day the woman went into town and came back to find her children had been murdered. This made her very sad and angry and so she decided to hang herself. Now she haunts the place. I have heard that if you get out of your car and say you have the woman's children she would come out and chase you. I have no idea if that will work or not.
Also some other things I have heard about the place is that you will see red eyes in the trees and that some people once experienced banging on the truck and roof of their car. When they stopped in town later on they looked on the car and found some footprints and handprints. There have also been sightings of ghosts in the cemetery nearby.
I don't know if any of this stuff is true or if any of it will happen but I do think it will make for a fun night. It'll be a good night of just a bunch of us friends hanging out and having fun. We will all be going off to college pretty soon so we won't be able to do this type of thing much more. We are just making the best of the time we have.