On my usual evening stroll with Tiki the Bitch Queen I think we both noticed, it was gone.
Just like that. No more snow to be found anywhere.
We strolled around the neighborhood, past the parking lots that less then three weeks ago still had piles of snow upwards of eight feet tall sitting on the edges where they had been pushed all winter.
Nothing, not a thing.
I still fail to get my hopes up that this is it. This is it for the year.
After all, the photo that leads this post was taken on April 6th 2009.
If all we get is an interlude, I’ll take the interlude. Even if it snows now it won’t last more then a day or two. The sun is too high, it warms things better. Melts things faster.
Now I wait, for the water to warm. This isn’t trout country. Fishing can be done, but it’s more a form of exercise. Exercising both the arm and one’s patience. And that I’ve been doing.
Working out the kinks in my cast. Getting used to the feel of a now four inch shorter rod. Learning again how to flick my wrist for a 50 foot cast and hit a spot the size of a bucket.
I think it took three tries and I got it all perfected again.
Now I wait, for the telltale tap of a smallie impatient as I am. It want’s to eat and even a three inch piece of pearl plastic looks like a meal.
A couple of weeks ago I was out and caught a three foot muskie. I know I’m supposed to be excited about such things, it’s a muskie, a fishing man’s fish.
But it was a bit of a let down. Tugging and running, I guess it was interesting, but I once watched a smallie in an aquarium intimidate a muskie into a corner.
That’s my kind of fish.
Soon, I’m predicting within a week…
And I won’t have to dig into my archives for a picture.
Denise
29 Mar 2014Digging through the archives always make me impatient to get out there too! Hoping sooner rather than latter fot you.
Ken G
29 Mar 2014I’ve been avoiding the archives Denise hoping the impatience subsides. It’s not working very well. The 10 day shows temps warming, problem is we can get up to 50 degrees and that’s the way it stays till June. Not what I had in mind.
bob
29 Mar 2014and just like that anything and everything can be gone. So, impatience pushes at the mind and the heart. In lieu of the real thing archives are there to prompt memories. Memories prompt fantasies. Fantasies are visualizations of events to come. They all have their place.
I suppose these short bits and pieces of writing will have to do until the real thing comes along. Patience, warmth and death marches, or even just middlin’ marches through semi-cultivated areas, will bring words.
Ken G
29 Mar 2014We’ll see about the words Bob. I’m liking the short bits and pieces. Easier, for now.
As for gone, was going to go back this week to the neighborhood I just moved from, say hi to a neighbor and friend, make get together plans for late spring, only to find out he died suddenly a few days after I moved out. He had my contact info, but his long time girlfriend did not. Finding out weeks later stuns you, especially when they’re only 59.
Dan "The Impractical Fishermen"
29 Mar 2014I can’t wait until I have new stuff to show either. It has been a tough winter here for reasons very different than over there.
Ken G
29 Mar 2014Not much longer here Dan.
Jim McClellan
30 Mar 2014Spring will be here soon. I just keep telling myself that over and over again. We don’t have to deal with the snow, but we do have to wait on the fish to wake up.
Ken G
30 Mar 2014I’m starting to wonder if dynamite might move things along a little quicker Jim. Nothing too big, just enough to get their attention.
CHUCK KOENIG
4 Apr 2014KEN– WHERE THE HELL ARE THE FISH? BEEN OUT TWICE TO THE FOX R. @ SULLIVAN RD., INDIAN TRAIL RD., & YORKVILLE DAM. NO FISH. WHAT GIVES? TOO DEEP TO HEAD OVER TO THE CANOE LAUNCH AND FISH THE BOLDERS ACROSS THE RIVER.
Ken G
4 Apr 2014It’s all temperature driven Chuck. You’ll have to be patient this year, the weather refuses to cooperate.