fishin'

I woke up before dawn this morning and beat the men to the dining hall and sucked down some cold coffee from last night. When the professors showed up, I was super ready to go, and we had our lines in the lake by 4:40 am. While everyone else was catchin' fish, I was tangled up in fishing line and slimy with my super powered (for noobs like me) powerbait. 3ventually, I felt a bite on my line, but ended up with nothing for about four hours.

Right before I was heading out, I got into a fish battle with a two lb rainbow trout (salmoninae, mykiss aquilarium? studying is hardish) and landed that mofo. People were jelly, I can tell. I took him back to camp and donated him to the fish fry!

one month later

Hi again!

This time I'm writing to you from the field in Eagle Lake Field Station, California (ELFS for short). The drive in was about twelve hours of roadtime, including a bout of moderate and super dusty offroading up into the mountains. The station is run by a hard mountain man and his super sweet wife, and seems to house 2 dogs, 1 cat, and plenty of bats, snakes, birds, and scorpions, in addition to some pretty nerdy zooarch students.

Compound pics are posted above. There's not much time for dilly dally around here, but I'm doing my best to update!

Today we focused on zooarch theory and history, and really cut our chops on learning the skeletal morphology of native fishes found in Eagle Lake, which can be seen from our lab windows. My homework tonight is also pictured above.

I've got about 5 hours to sleep up, because I'm getting up at 4:30 to fish with the men, so stay tunned for hopefully more organizational and informative posts.