Sunday, January 26, 2014

Missin' Fishin'

It's been too cold to fish so far this winter. I went one morning in November between cold fronts. The sun had come out warm but the water felt icy when I dipped my dry fly in the river to see how it behaved. 
I probably could have fished, but the wind out of the northwest made casting a weightless fly troublesome. It was like trying to push a rope.
After about an hour with frozen feet, I cranked in my fly line and walked back to the warmth of my truck cab, and headed home.
It wasn't an ideal day to fish, but it was a chance to spend a little time on the water.
It warmed into the upper 50s today, but the temps will drop like a stone in the morning and the weatherman is forecasting snow for the area.
I've been getting messages from my friends to the north of us and I realized that we just THINK it's cold here. 
Our cousin sent us a link to a forecast in Chicago that called for windchills around 30 below.
One piece I saw said there would be areas of record-breaking low temps up there.

I know it's hard to imagine, but in about a month, warm weather will slowly begin to come back into our lives, and we'll start thinking about gardening, fertilizing lawns and fly fishing. 
I for one, can't wait to get back on the water.

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
- Jacques Cousteau




10 comments:

  1. Thanks for the reminder Rick... it will be warm again... we just have to be patient and you will get back to the water. I am going to take more opportunities to get to the water too... :)

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  2. I am sure the fish will still be there when the weather allows. Stay warm, too - so glad to not be in somewhere like Chicago, that's for sure

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  3. It'll be here before you know it Rick. You probably get early springs in Alabama don't you?

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    1. We do usually warm up fairly early each year. Last year it was cool and wet, so Mother Nature owes us a nice spring :)

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  4. Awww hope you do get to fish soon - hope the weather perks up as well! Take care
    x

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  5. I have a cousin who lives "south of the Red River," wherever that is. I visited once in February; he had a garden in.

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  6. Oh no you don't think its cold... that IS cold. Here I am in shorts/Tshirt wondering whether the air conditioner has to go on.
    I love fishing, when we were first married most weekends we were up at 4 am travelling to some water, breakfast whilst we fish. (Women catch the most? - at least in our family)
    Love the photo.

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  7. Driving by the lake today we saw people ice fishing.
    Below zero temperatures are expected here tonight.

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  8. Chicago has definitely been beyond cold, and we have certainly had enough snow, but you're right..spring is getting closer every day! We just have to hold that thought!

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