Just want to ask. What size and color PTN do you use for hard water conditions? Until this last week the water was still hard: all my fly would do was lay on the surface. Should I weight my fly with a chain saw? Just a little shell shocked, had to blow snow on Easter. Happy Easter Dan
Danny,
You could get out the pick and bust a hole the size of a dinner plate, pace off 40 feet and practice your casting. :lol: I’m bummed out as well. I was mowing the yard Friday in shorts and bare feet and today, 40 degrees colder, rain and wind. Not to mention this is the first time with 3 days in a row off work in close to a year.
Leo C.
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I remember April 11, 1989. 10 inches of snow in S. Louis! It’s not that bad yet.
Guys,
You get to pick whre you live.
In the high to mid 80s the last few days here.
Bass are active and some are post spawn now.
Topwater is on.
Bluegills are everywhere.
More of the mountain lakes are opening up every day, as are the roads, for those that prefer trout.
It’s prime fishing time in the southwest.
Come on down!!!
Buddy
Tie on a 16 lb bowling ball just in front of the PTN. Try for a good dead drift. As the ice floe passes your position, lift your rod straight up, point it at heaven and ask, “Have You checked the calendar lately”?
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Hang in there brother it is coming. Think of all the mosquitos that just died before they got a chance to lay eggs.
How many times have I tried to explaint to yu that your hope in that situation is a sinking fly line?
Rick
Shoot last week I was out in short sleeves fishing and this past Saturday we get 4 1/2" of snow and highs in the 30’s in central Texas none the less. Weird weather this year so far. At least we got rain and the drought is over and our waters are up to pool.
Hobo
Not being political, this is an honest question because I really don’t understand but…I thought Global Warming ment it should be warmer. Any scientific explanations?
I’VE FIGURED OUT THE WEATHER PROBLEM…I JUST READ JOE’S LATEST WARM WATER ARTICLE…WEATHER WAS GREAT TILL HE RETIRED :lol:
On the tv weather his morning they said that it was colder the first week of April this year than it was the first week of January :shock:
Jumped off the bass boat last week in my shorts to cool off. This week I had fleece under my waders. Go figure…
The weather truly is weird this spring. I would guess the crappie spawn has been set back a number of weeks here in northeast Kansas. The overnight low, night before last, was 14 degrees. Many flowers and shrubs took the bait and sent out their spring leaves; now these plants lall ook like they got watered with Rev. Jim Jones Kool-Aid.
Last winter was so mild and snow-free that it could have posed as a poster child for global warming. This winter was much colder – well, actually it was a normal cold winter; it just FELT colder by comparison.
You get these late blasts of cold and it does seem to refute the global warming theory. However, the fact is the ice caps on both poles are melting at a high rate. High mountain glaciers worldwide are melting rapidly. The planet is warming up, bigtime.
The scary thing, according to a fascinating TV show I watched on the Discovery Channel a couple of years ago, is that if too much ice melts in the North Pole/Greenland region it will send a massive amount of freshwater into the Northern Atlantic. Because freshwater has a different specific gravity than saltwater, the presence of too much freshwater (from ice melt) will cause the “Atlantic Conveyor” to shut down. (The Atlantic Conveyor is the Gulf Stream current, which transports warm surface water northeast toward the British Isles; this surface current greatly moderates the weather in those places).
Ice core sampling and sediment core samples show that sudden warming periods have occurred in earth’s history numerous times, and with each event the Northern Hemisphere was plunged into an Ice Age. With the last Ice Age, northeast Kansas lay under an ice sheet one mile thick. According to the core sample analysis, those earlier Ice Ages sent advancing glaciers that covered much of North America and those glaciers developed with startling speed. So the way I understood that TV show, the possibility is very real that the global warming period we’ve now entered could melt our polar caps and glaciers in such fashion as to trigger the onset of a new Ice Age.
Y’all fly tyers might want to consider laying in a supply of lead wire now, and start working up some impact resistant, fast-sinking nymph patterns. Anything that’ll break through ice.
Joe
“Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe”
Here in west central Minnesota we are actually building ice lately. Oh yeah, and a forcast of something like 7 inches of snow tonight into tomorrow. I like winter and all, but this is getting rediculous.
Joe, there is no evidence of the “atlantic conveyor”, which is actually a section of a global current, changing during the last sudden warming about a millenia ago. Some scientist will tell you that ice ages are predicated on a long term (multi-100,000 year) cycle. As much as people are worried about it being warmer than normal, remember that even during the emergency ploughing campaign of 1940 that was instituted in the UK, they STILL did not plow (plough) as far up the slopes as the medieval peasants did as a matter of course some 800 years ago. Also remember that they were growing wine grapes in England at that time. Also a number of scientist seriously doubt that an infusion of fresh water will change the global current.
Besides, isn’t the “Atlantic Conveyor” the name of a British container ship that got hit by an exocet or two back in '82?
If we DO have a bit of cooler weather, we won’t have to fish for trout only in tailwaters and spring creeks around here. 
regards,
Ed
I feel your pain. On Easter Sunday I was “asked” to go fishing with my daughter’s new boyfriend, so we went. 28 degrees, SNOWING and ice on the guides. Not my idea of spring fishing.
jed