Aurora Borealis

When fishing you never know what's going to happen.  Sometimes you catch fish, sometimes you don't and sometimes you experience something special.  On March 30, 2001 while fishing Pyramid lake me and my fishing buddies (Dave Swirczek, Troy Olsen and Darin "Yoder" Yadon) where treated to the Aurora Borealis.  Ok, so maybe we weren't fishing at that exact moment.  Maybe we were getting drunk sitting around the campfire.  Still, it was amazing.

It started as a white light to the north not unlike the moon behind some clouds.  The moon, however, was almost straight overhead.  We all stood up and tried to figure out what it might me.  The nearest city big enough to produce lights like that to the north of Pyramid is in Canada.  When the lights turned red and reached from the horizon to directly overhead we knew they were the Northern Lights.   Being sloshed, we went on and on about the significance of the sighting and how we were the only ones lucky enough to see them.  It wasn't that significant and we weren't the only ones but it was still pretty special.

That is why we go fishing (or hiking or hunting or whatever).  Nature is full of surprises, all of them more amazing than anything we can imagine.  I wouldn't trade that memory for all the fish in the ocean.