...until spring? Woke up to see the mercury at the 26 degree mark this morning. I only got to experience one good day of "fall bite" before back to back cold fronts started driving down three weeks ago. There were a couple of days when the temps climbed up in the high 40s, but 24-25 mph winds prevented me from even thinking about launching a kayak. They're calling for a brief warm up until the next wave of hawks come blowing down in about a week. So much for fall. Think I'm going to go ahead and start stripping line off reels and get them cleaned up for spring, 140 days, really?? Winter is the worse time for a retiree.

We had 2" of snow on the ground and barely got above freezing today. My buddy was nice enough to send me a video of him whacking them one after the other this afternoon. Water was still 52*. As much as the weather sucks, winter is some of my best fishing all year.

 

I agree @Harold Scoggins it is COLD! I was in the tree stand last night and saw 17 deer total. Just a few small bucks though. God willing and the creek don't rise I will be able to hit the lake either this evening or hopefully one day this weekend.