Pike Lake, Hermantown, MN

[DetectorGuy]

Over Fourth of July I had this fisherman grab my dive flag and start pulling it into his boat. I tugged hard on the line and he tugged hard back. I looked up and saw the silouette of his boat above me and I un-spooled alot of line to swim away from him. He took the slack as soon as I gave it. I popped up about 15' from his boat and he was definitely scared to see me. He had no clue that it was a dive flag and he was pretty sure that I was a monster. Nothing like a stuttering, drunk fisherman to make you wonder about the dive flag rules and the lack of boaters to take some kind of training to operate a motorized boat on a public lake. I keep my dive flag winder on a "break away" lanyard which is attached to my BC to insure that a boater doesnt snag the dive flag line and rip my BC off. Most divers just hang on to the winder but I like to keep my hands free to run the metal detector or camera.

I have dove the whole East end to a depth of 15' to 18' and in a few areas I have it covered to 24' but no deeper. There are two holes that reach 60' just west of the penninsula that I have not been to yet. If you get a chance Dive between the two float planes on the North side and check out the rock pile. There were so many bass there that I could not see through the school of them (sizeable ones too).