10-19-2013, 04:38 PM
Just had to add to this woefully underused forum...
I put in with a couple other online buddies Thursday on what is likely my last launch of 2013. Mars and Regulus shone brightly in the Eastern sky as we left the ramp - and it was 28°F at Pineview Reservoir in northern Utah. My fingers got so numb by the time I started fishing that while baiting my hook, I was surprised that I couldn't let go. A closer peek showed the hook buried nicely in my numb forefinger. "Hmmm," said I to me, "It didn't hurt going in, so..." I yanked.
Didn't hurt. Then.
Did later. Sho' nuff.
A few hours later, after watching schools of perch and crappie go by on my Humminbird - all with their middle fins raised - I bagged it. I had managed to avoid the odor of skunk, even catching one double. But the flyswatter crappie and hammerhandle perch were too small to clean. The only thing I brought home was this photo, taken by a fellow shiverer...
![[Image: gforum_zps11afd8ce.jpg]](http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c170/RockyRaab/gforum_zps11afd8ce.jpg)
Oh, that's not a
-- my cheeks contracted in the cold.
[signature]
I put in with a couple other online buddies Thursday on what is likely my last launch of 2013. Mars and Regulus shone brightly in the Eastern sky as we left the ramp - and it was 28°F at Pineview Reservoir in northern Utah. My fingers got so numb by the time I started fishing that while baiting my hook, I was surprised that I couldn't let go. A closer peek showed the hook buried nicely in my numb forefinger. "Hmmm," said I to me, "It didn't hurt going in, so..." I yanked.
Didn't hurt. Then.
Did later. Sho' nuff.
A few hours later, after watching schools of perch and crappie go by on my Humminbird - all with their middle fins raised - I bagged it. I had managed to avoid the odor of skunk, even catching one double. But the flyswatter crappie and hammerhandle perch were too small to clean. The only thing I brought home was this photo, taken by a fellow shiverer...
Oh, that's not a
-- my cheeks contracted in the cold.[signature]