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No, my ponds aren't frozen enough to walk on. After all, this is Oregon. But I was planning a fishing expedition today and called ahead. It's a good thing I did. My favorite ponds are iced over!
I know our wimply climate doesn't impress any of you Nanuk of the North types who live in the winter deep freeze, but here in this state we seldom see much ice in winter. The current cold wave though, has finally done its thing to Western Oregon. Even some of my pipes are frozen. Brrr!
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[cool][#0000ff]Hey Z, good to hear from you again, even if it is just for whimpering and whining. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Yeah, we know. It is tough to get your sinking line down through skim ice. Guess how tough it is to drop a fly in an ice hole from 60 feet...on a foot of ice.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We are experiencing below zero stuff here (in Utah) these days. Winter is here. Time to start the spring thaw dance. Might not hasten spring, but it will help keep us warm in the meantime.[/#0000ff]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD![laugh] Man the weather is unbelievable this year.
Like TD said, I am so tired of these beautifully sunny days with single digit temps. It is so deceiving, and depressing.
A couple of more weeks and we might take the new pick-up up to Idaho for some fishing up there.[/size][/font]
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Um, I would do that only if you planned on ice fishing in single digits up here [  ]. I told my wife it didn't get that cold in the Boise valley. She now wonders what cold is, if this isn't that cold. I told her growing up in Idaho Falls, where January would see -30 F, I probably don't have a good frame of reference.
We used to gauge how cold it was by fishing the southfork in winter. If your spinning rod guides completely iced up before you got your lure fully retrieved, it was too cold. If you had to chip the ice out of your guides only every two to three casts, it was painful, but not too cold. [cool]
As far as it being the end of the world, I had always imagined I would be engulfed in flames, not ice...[ ]
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When the end of the world comes, I will be riding a white horse and floating in the clouds!
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[font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1] When the end of the world comes, I will be riding a white horse and floating in the clouds!
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[cool][#0000ff]I tell people that Utah is not at the end of the earth, but you can see it from here.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]All the folks who don't like hardcore ice fishin' are curling up in a fetal position and whimpering a lot.[/#0000ff]
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Well whit the weather we are having here in Utah lately I am beginning to think that we need to start building some of those little ice shacks like they have up in Minnesota and Michigan.
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[cool][#0000ff]Little ice shacks? Some of those babies are luxury cabins. Complete generator electrical, plumbing, TV, beds, etc. People almost live in those things for days at a time. On some areas of some lakes there are permanent small villages.[/#0000ff]
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Yeah, well, it was a joke...[ ]
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Yea no kidding, if we had 2+ feet of ice we would be in real trouble. And Zonker I hope that was not you i saw on the news last night playing pinball in your car.
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Dave,
Your albino trout and shots of you in your Fat Cat or ODC 420 help me get through the winter. This year I'm doing a long term music teaching assignment through till March so I don't even have time to tie flies. I was really counting on you for my winter "Fix" of vicarious float-tubing.
I think I'm ready to buy a sit on top kayak for fishing smallmouth in the rivers up here in Ontario where the water always hardens to the point where some guys drive their vehicles out onto the ice, sometimes with disastrous results.
Can't wait for March. My teaching will be done by then and I will have until September to tube kayak and flyfish.
God Bless,
Don
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Don,
Between the cooler temps and being up to my neck in extra work lately, I haven't even been fishing for those big golden trout (or anything else for that matter.) Back in the fall when I had time the ponds were low because of the extra dry weather we had through the summer. Now the levels are great but the ice has covered them. I see a gradual warming trend predicted over the next week. Maybe, just maybe I'll be able to get out, get fish, and get pics up here.
Com'on Spring!
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New pickup FG? What kind did you get?
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Hey Uncle Z. Why don't you come on down to Cali. We had some tiny snow flakes last week but all the water is still soft.
It sure has been overworking my auto pressure keeper device and draining my batteries. The cloud cover hasn't allowed my solar collectors to keep a good charge on the batteries either.
When that happens, I cant' run my DVD for very long on the float tube.
I hate when that happens.[pirate]
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Got ourself a 2007 Chevy Silverado, Crewcab, 1500 4X4.[/size][/#bf0000][/font]
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Got ourself a 2007 Chevy Silverado, Crewcab, 1500 4X4.[/size][/#bf0000][/font] [/reply]
Very nice! Congrats!
[cool]Good choice of color. Who gets to drive it, you or Alan?
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TubeN2,
[cool]This is about the only time of year I'm tempted to miss California - and it usually only lasts for a few weeks. I do fine as long as I keep in mind that I don't miss the traffic.
Wow. I imagine that if you have to go back to batteries for your DVD player on your tube it might actually sink it.
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Hey FG that is one sweet ride. But why didnt you buy the one that matches your Toone instead of Evil's? hehe
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]I like to make him think it is his[laugh][/size][/black][/font]
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