Guy James TN

[T. Bix]

I just finished earning my Intro card and although all this stuff is fresh in my mind I still dread the day. I am glad to hear you didn't become a statistic.

[Webmaster]

When the line went slack and was laying all over the place half buried in silt, I think one of us should have pulled the line tight as we swam and looked for a rock or something to take up the slack.

You have the right idea there. How did you get off it? I would think you'd be glued to the line. I know I am.

I've had to excavate the line there before, but I always completely free it and try to pull it taught, or just gap over it with another reel.

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The line was laying on the bottom, not buried except just a little in a few spots here and there. But there's a lot of it laying loose. Remember how it was staked at a zig-zag and we kept saying we needed to straighten it up? Well the stakes were gone (all but one). and the line was folded back on itself several times starting at the T to the mud tunnel. Staying off the bottom meant not seeing the line, but hitting the mud created huge mushroom clouds of silt, so you couldn't see the line anyway. I kept pulling it through one hand, but it was bunching up behind me (where steve had to deal with it). Not a rock in sight, nothing but soft deep mud. I really think there's a new deeper layer of muck in there from the T to the hill. I was also afraid pulling it taut would pull it into a trap. no need for a gap, it wasn't buried (some places maybe just a bit, but mostly laying on top).

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