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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1586169, member: 112&quot;]Been to Alaska too, but fishin, not gold mining. And that&#039;s another whole story all by itself. Ya see, I had this run in with a 900 lb. Alaska Brown, he wanted to get on the rock I was fishin from. And I wasn&#039;t about to let him - was my dang rock ! After &#039;bout an hour of him getting poked in the eyes with the wrong end of my flyrod, and having a hook ripped through his nose - he finally saw the wisdom of giving up the battle <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And no Dave, that&#039;s not embellishment. I had about 50 witnesses, and got pictures !</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well yeah, research has always been a big part of my life. I could read and write before I ever went to school. Used to read whole sets of encyclopedias for fun, and to learn how to do fun things.&nbsp; By the time I was 8, I had learned how to make nitro, from scratch. &#039;Course there was that one accident, the house and its roof took the worst of that. But the whole dang thing was my mom&#039;s fault - never woulda happened if she hadn&#039;t called me away to find out what the stink was.</p><p><br /></p><p>But finding that wreck, that was an accident, no research involved really, just blind luck. Ya see, I was sittin on the bowspirit of the boat because I made a bonehead mistake and lost a stainless steel hose overboard, and we were lookin for it. I was lookin, the Capt. was driving the boat. And as we were cruising along with me watching the bottom I saw a pile of ballast stones (knew what they were of course because the Capt. had taught me). So I threw a marker overboard and yelled at the Capt. to turn around. Long story short, I had found a wreck. Spent 10 days in a row digging out the anchor with an airlift, got my right hand broke for my trouble. In later weeks we recovered a couple of the ships cannon, some coins, few pieces of jewelry, odds and ends.</p><p><br /></p><p>That anchor&#039;s still down in the Keys someplace, it aint where we left it anymore because I went and looked a few years ago. But it&#039;s got my name on it, well on a plaque attached to it anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ya beginning to get an idea why people would never believe it Dave <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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