Horseshoe Lake. 3/2

I went to Horseshoe Lake Saturday morning near Columbia, thinking my livewell was fixed. Took a.while, but I finally caught one. Guess what? Livewell doesn't work...again. fished all morning and only caught 5, which I released.

But I did "catch" something few people ever do. I saw this white styrofoam box floating in the water with a.long white string going up into the trees. At the end of the string , there appeared to be some deflated baloons.

After retrieving it from the water I saw it was a.weather balloon. It.was released at 5am that morning in Shreveport. It had instructions on how to mail it back so I did. It felt like I killed a banded duck. Here are some pics.

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I thought I was the only one to find balloons, not like yours but party balloons.

My advice...... don’t fix the livewell..... put em straight on the ice.


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sure hope they dont spend a bunch of our tax dollars on those things. thats not a very long flight time. wonder how far it was from where it launched to where you found it.

It probably was launched just prior to the frontal passage that brought all the destruction to Alabama.
"gene"

Cool


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Was it released in February ???

Never thought of anything like that

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My advice...... don’t fix the livewell..... put em straight on the ice.


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Won’t be long, you’ll need to ice them anyways!

"Was it released in February ???"

Larry, he said it was released the same day that he found it.

thanks D -- I was only having the Question because on my Laptop the number scratched both looked like a 1 or 3 -- then the bottom of the number 3 looked like there was a hook at the bottom -- It just made me scratch my head because the smallish picture made me look several times. The wife put it on a word Doc and the image was slightly larger and the date was more Readable.. Some weather Balloons are found months later ... Just my eyeballs playing tricks

That's a pretty cool find!