Monday, June 16, 2008

Big fish and a broken camera

So Sat was my brother Eric's company's Fishing Day on Strawberry Res. Erika was feeling sick Sat at 4:30 AM when we were getting ready to leave so she stayed home with Miles and Eric and I went together. We rented a boat in the Soldier Creek Marina and started trolling up and down the shorelines. Eric started catching Cutthroats right away with his green flat fish, 3 about 16 - 18 inches long. So finally I made him let me take a turn with his flatfish and after a few minutes I caught my lunker. 22" Cutthroat shown in picture below. It was a good day on the Strawb. Well, until we started back to the marina around noon, and I forgot to put Erika's camera back in its case. I left it on the boat bench seat and the vibrating boat going full speed made it slide off and fall into a bucket of bloody fish water where it sat for 15 minutes until we got back to the marina. After I got home I took it apart as much as I could and I let the lens and CCD sit in rice to pull the moisture out. Sunday I put it back together and it totally works fine! Well, the lense still has some moisture in it, so the pictures it takes are fuzzy, but it functions perfect! It smells like fish still, but it works. I love Sony cameras! So, if the lens never starts taking good pictures again I can buy a new one of those off ebay for like $50 and it should be fine. $50 is better than $280 for a new camera though!

2 comments:

Becky Workman said...

those are some nice fish boys!! And I like your summer haircut Will. I'm going to show it to Jake.

The Anderson's said...

Will, For a second I thought you grew hair overnight. Way to go and catch some fish! Nice job on the camera, smart thinking on the rice idea....you must be an engineer.