Welcome back! Read your features on the get together up north, and on Wiper fishing. I normally read warmwater and panfish on Mondays.
I haven’t fished in ages, as I haven’t had time. (Play bass in the church band, and in a band that goes to prisons, and teach college organic chemistry at the local Juco two evenings a week, besides working full time.) (Also this summer spent time helping our younger daughter and her husband working on their house.)
Did you ever get any of your stuff back?
Hope to cast start casting bullets for rifle shooting some of these days too.
Do you live in the areas of Texas that repeatedly got hammered this summer by torrential rains and flooding? If so, maybe that contributed to why you haven’t gotten out fishing very often lately?
No, I never did get any of my stolen gear back. Maybe someday.
Glad to hear that you’re a bassist; I am, too. The drummer in my band died this last Sunday; Don’s funeral was today. He sure liked the bluegill and crappie fillets I gave him last year.
Sounds like you’re extremely busy. That’s cool, but don’t forget about fly fishing. What a waste it would be if you forget how to fly fish by the time you retire!
Maybe you should rotate some of the other Feature pages into your Monday FAOL reading. Lots of stuff gets written by the saltwater and coldwater guys that applies to us flatlanders.
No I live in the Texas panhandle, and too much rain is almost never a problem. Out here not enough rain is the problem that comes up from time to time, but not excess rain. We have plenty of twisters though.
I do read other FAOL features but almost always read the warm water and panfish ones. Haven’t been tying lately, as I haven’t made time to. Hope to tie a few over the Thanksgiving holidays, as I want to give some to a friend who was in our band here, but has moved to Oklahoma City. He has an old bamboo rod, and wants to try bass fishing. I am going to encourage him toward bluegill, as a good way to get started. I will have to see, however, as I have tests to grade, kids are home, and need to study a chapter for my class. Also have work to do around the house.