I’m in my junior year of engineering studies and my courses are getting pretty intense. I finally found a break in my studies and made it out to the creek for some time on the water. When I first put on my waders, it was in the mid 50’s, sunny and no wind. The fishing was tough! The only fish I saw was when I half fell into the creek when the bank collapsed beneath me. But the last hour I was out a low pressure system blew in and the fishing lit up. In that last rainy, windy hour I caught 8 little brownies.
Many of the creeks around here stay open year round. Some slower sections and the headwaters freeze over but it is easy to fish all year!
The weather around the Hills is goofy. The last week has been really nice 40+ highs. Today it reached 55 degrees. Of course we get the cold snaps too, the week before that the highs were never above single digits. Then we get storms like that one the first week of October. They usually aren’t that bad but when we get any significant amount of snow, it never seems to blow in peacefully.
I grew up on the eastern side of the state, now that’s cold. I remember not seeing temps above -25 for a week straight! You can be sure there’s nary an ounce of open water east of the river.
