Exceptionally Cold Fishing
- This topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated Jan 12, 2015 at 8:42 pm by
.
-
Posts
-
I may very well have set a personal record this weekend, going fishing up in the mountains with Scott Kitchens. We didn’t find anything large this time, but we did at least catch a pretty stream resident rainbow.
Twelve degrees! I look like a GI Joe. It warmed up a lot, which is good, because at this point I wasn’t sure I’d be able to handle a day of this. My feet were numbing by 8:30, so we built a shore fire, which took forever to get going even though we had a starter log.
Despite my hilariously overkill net (which is actually my wading staff — I put a geriatric cane tip on the bottom and taped it in), I still took a nasty spill on the ice. My elbow and shoulder still hurt.
This is how cold it was in the SOUTH y’all:
Shore fire definitely helped, but so did the sun as the weather blew out.
Attended StreamerFest last year, was 11 Degrees, running my L48 Supreme JetBoat on the White, almost had the river to our selves, the next day it snowed, day after Catch & Release by the dam opened, had it to our self, low water, left the boat at the motel, waded, bet I’ll never do that again, have the river to ourselves.
We laugh about it now, but even with all the Simms gear, fleece and such, bones were cold. But I’d do it again tomorrow. Nothing like getting out and making memories.
David
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.