Stream close to home opend today. Threw the gear in my new/old feeshn truck and headed out. Nuts Windy, overcast, spittin rain and COLD. Kinda hard too concentrate when your whole body is shakin and yer teeth sound like castanets. Thats why I dont chase steel. Im 54 and Ive done all that crazy stuff already. Got the t-shirt too. Oh well, June is coming and my week in the Blue Mtns of Oregon.
Hi Clyde
Cold, rain and wind can certainly take much of the enjoyment out of fly fishing. Better days are definitely coming so it sounds like you made a good choice. I’d have joined when my hands got cold enough to make my grip on the rod questionable. 8T 
Fishing is supposed to be fun, when its not fun I go read or find something else to do. I don’t blame you for stopping for the day.
Eric
As long as the streams were free of ice I was out steelhead fishing this past winter. I’m 13 years older then you and I don’t know how many tomorrows I’m going to have to enjoy this sport, so I’m going to enjoy all the todays I can.
and I’m 8 years older than you ridgeliner…and I say more power to you …but…I have redefined “enjoy”…no golf in the rain, mostly no fishing in the rain…seldom go out when it is 100 degrees out …and no longer stay in a state where it gets to freezing…I figure there’s always another day…and when there isn’t I won’t be around to care:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:.
And Clyde I’ve done that crazy stuff too…still don’t know if some of the days elk hunting or some of those steelhead days with ice on the ferrules were the coldest…believe my vote goes to a particular day on the Selitz.
clyde,
I must be your kind of wuss. I was going to mow the lawn today at 8:00 A.M. but the wind was too cold. So I went to the attorney’s office and signed papers on the re-fi for my home. Then went to Cabela’s and bought a tip top for my new boo build. Then had lunch and finally mowed the lawn at about 1:30 this P.M. Today was opening day for the lowland lakes in Washington and you could walk across the lake from boat to boat, and never get your feet wet. I don’t go fishing on opening day. Yup, I’m your kind of wuss, and I’m proud of it. :P:P
I don’t have to worry about 100 degree weather. We don’t have that here. We have very few days when it gets above 90 degrees. I certainly don’t do the things I used to. A day fishing today is 3-4 hours, not 10-12 hours.
A doctor told me one time to look at my birth certificate to figure out why my knee was bothering me. He said parts wear out. We are fortunate today that they can replace a lot of those parts.
Calling NOone any names, I fish NO matter what the weather. As long as I’m dressed for the occasion, BRING IT ON!.
Mark
PS: BUT, I fly fish only about 30 days a year and NO weather is going to take a day of that away from me.
i suggest a flask of good whiskey!
Mark,
Would this influence your decision?: http://www.sheridanmedia.com/site/news/AudioVideo2007/2007-10-05/cloud.jpg
Doug
Ridgeliner, that reminds me of another fella that went to the doc and complained about his knee. The doc looks him over and finally says. Well you know you are getting older and you have to expect some of these kinds of things. The fella thinks for a bit and then looks at the doc and says, OK I can understand that but there is just one thing. What’s that he replies. Well, its about my other knee. Oh, is it bothering you too? Oh not at all says the fella. It’s just that, well, you know, it IS the same age as the other one.
Doug,
Perhaps I did overlook one or two exceptions
Mark
Sometimes it’s more fun to think about going fishing, getting ready for fishing and talking about fishing than it is to be fishing!
have no choice-where i live in tug-hill area of northern ny-if i didnt fish in bad weather-i wouldnt ever fish??
Clyde, I used to tell people in SE Idaho that 30 deg in the Western Oregon is colder than 0 degrees in SE Idaho. Those who had spent time in a wet environment understood, the others couldn’t comprehend. Its amazing how that cold goes straight to the bone.
Eric
Doug, is that sun reflecting on the cloud, or is it lightning???
either way, I think I would head for the truck, or house.
Eric, I understand that humidity thing very well!! I’m a high mt. desert boy and don’t like that WET feel at all!!
I’m the same kind of wuss…It’s warm here today, for April, and the creeks have calmed down from the last big rains and I was gonna go…but not in these 25 mph sustained, 35 mph. gusts of wind. I’ll either tie flys, take the Alfa or MG for a drive or just putz around the garden…an’ I was 56 in Feb. Appears I’m in good company!!
Vic
Eric,
33 degree “Wet” windy weather, is my least favorite, here, but cold weather, at the Coast, in the FOG, is the pitts!
Doug
I guess I’m just thankful for good health, a reasonable overall fitness level, high quality fleece and goretex - all of which require a significant investment, and all of which are well worth it.
Can’t fish 125 plus days a year on a wide variety of water in SE Idaho without all of those things, and a desire to enjoy the outdoors no matter what it might bring you on a given day.
John