November Night Dive at the Pits

[AandA]

OK, so I thought I'd already completed my last dive of the season :.... I had the equipment put up for the season and everything. Oh well when you've got the bug you've got the bug. I just NEEEEDED to go up for one more dive. Went up to Crosby on Wednesday night. Dove Portsmouth Pit. We've dove in that lake in the daytime earlier this year and the water was fairly murky, compared to the other pit lakes in the area. We had however done a night dive up there year before with Minnesota School of Diving out of Brainerd and saw a number of good sized pike. Well went into the water at about 7:30 PM clear night with bright stars. The air temp was 23 with a brisk wind out of the NW, and the water was just plain cold :o :o. Did however have a great time and saw several nice pike. I was really glad to have the warm van on shore to climb into after getting out. The 7mm suit kept me moderately warm for the first half hour, the real pain came when it was time to get out of the water. WOW.