February 19, Pre-Practice Lake Ouachita, Arkansas
Annie writes:
Dan went out fishing but we are expecting bad weather. He told me before he left that if it was thundering and lightning he was coming in. About an hour after he left the storm came and it was a good one, with heavy rains, lightening and thunder. Cooper and I were waiting it out in the tent.
About an hour into the storm and I tried to call Dan. I got through, but there was lots of static. It sounded like he was on the lake. It is not a good feeling when you are not sure whether or not your husband has come off the lake or not during one of these storms. We have been caught on the lake before and we usually will find land, get out of the boat and find some sort of shelter to wait it out. I continued calling Dan for the next two hours but could not get through. There is nothing I can do except wait. Dan finally reached me. The storm was still going strong but he managed to get the boat out of the water and was on his way home. The storm seemed to finally end around 4:30 and the campground had turned into a lake.
Dan writes:
It rained hard all morning, and because the weather man had predicted thunder and lightning I stayed in one fairly protected creek and never ventured too far from the truck. Still there was plenty of water to fish – rock bank, points, and pockets, and in the three hours of fishing I got in before the lightning started I caught two largemouth (one keeper), and no spotted bass.