Boy, do I have a story for you. You might think it's funny, you might think that I am an idiot. You be the judge. Here goes.

     I thought that I would head out to Phillips on Friday for the morning bite. Needless to say I was by myself. I arrived around 6am. Lake was beautiful, nobody on it. I started fishing and pulled out a Largie just over 2lbs. Caught a couple more dinkers. I had cast my line out by this dock and set my pole down on the deck, while I started to tie up a new crankbait on my baitcast. I noticed my line that was in the water was slowly starting to move. I reached down grabbed my pole and let him have it. Well in the act of letting him "have it", I did not have a real good handle on my fishing pole. So, after the hook set, my pole flies into the water! I just looked at it for about a second, dumfounded. Then I did the next best thing. Dove in after it! I got it. Came up for air and started to reel. I wasn't going to let that fish get away! I was trying to reel the fish in along side my boat, that was slowly drifting away. I decided that it would be best if I set my pole in the boat and got in and then reeled that fish in. So I did, and I still had this fish on. Never guess what the whole commotion was about. A SLIMER! Yup, a %$*&@$% Trout. Anyway, I shook off like my chocolate lab after swimming, and noticed that I can't see a dang thing. My glasses? I lost my glasses, and I am blind! So now I am soaking wet and can't see a dang thing. Mind you I still have to get my boat on the trailer and get back home to Enumclaw and I am in Shelton.
     Anyway after three stops looking for contacts I finally find a place in Olympia that will give me a set of contacts for $50.00. I would have paid $100.00. Do you know how hard it is to see an exit sign, or any sign for that matter, when you are blind? I finally made it home and figured that I would tell you about it.
   One of these days I won't have to work on the night of the meeting and get to finally go to it.

Xsftballer

I'm Sorry.....I would have to embellish on this one....even to say it was over a two pounder Largie would have been better!

new screen name........

blindslimercatcherswimmerafterer

Love the new nickname. Ya it wasn't a high life in my life, but I made it through.

Headed to Banks in the morning and I can't wait. Let you know how I did.

Larry I fished with a buddy of yours this morning. Rick Yonkin, we headed out to Sawyer. I thnk you are the same Larry that he was talking about.

Mike

Xsftballer