Most Innovative Field Solution Ever

Through a Series of Unfortunate Events with whose details we will not bore you, we ended up with a sunken gillnet - disasters led to sunken and/or lost floats, so there we have this ghost net catching fish on the bottom of the lake, and no way to retrieve it.

"It's okay, it's okay," Heidi said, "this has happened to me once before. We need something very hooky."

Hooky... hooky.... Kathryn thought to herself. Something locally available, and hooky...

Caribou antlers!

Luckily for us, at the other end of that lake is an abandoned mine from the '70's. The buildings have all been burned but there remains a pile of caribou antlers that used to be mounted inside.

Now, we are using an inflable boat. And we are wearing puncturable waders. And yes, caribou antlers are very hooky! Especially when they're covered in rusty nails from when they were mounted. It was a nerve-wracking bouncy trip back up the lake. And oh yeah, it was blowing a hurricane.

Well, through a Series of Minor Miracles, our cluster of caribou racks tied to a long rope was successful in retrieving our lost net. And, we had caught only a few fish, and ones that we needed for our study. Whew!