Willie Cauley-Stein picked up a new hobby ahead of free agency, and it wasn’t as relaxing as he thought it would be.

“The first day [of free agency], I’m sitting there waiting on the top-tier dudes to go,” the former Kings big man told NBC Sports Bay Area. “I picked up fishing. I need to do something with this time, you know what I’m saying? Like, sitting here waiting was just brutal on my mental state. So I started fishing.”

His venture was interrupted by a call from his agent, luckily for both of them.

“I got a call from my agent, I’m out in the boonies,” Cauley-Stein said. “They’re like, ‘Where you at? The Warriors are trying to call.’ I’m like, ‘Hold up! I’m on the lake and I ain’t got no service.’ So I had to drive 2 miles up the road so I could get service and take the call.”

The one-time Kentucky prodigy confessed he was holding out to see what other options may be available, but then his agent put Warriors coach Steve Kerr on the phone.

“I talked to coach Kerr on the phone and he was just explaining to me how I would fit in, and I think in the middle of that call, I think [Kevon] Looney had signed. So I’m telling him, ‘Yo, coach I’m in!'”

Now, he’s headed to the Bay Area, where he won’t have to worry about finding a spot to fish — and hopefully not about cell reception, either.