The Big One! [blizzard Of '16]

[Coss]

The fast and the Flurriest.

 

[Coss]

We're just getting RAIN all day today. Going to be up to 50 degrees. The snow is all but gone now.

No snow (well at least down here, mountains have lots) but rain, and already 50; supposed to get up to 58 and rain to continue.

 

[CheeseheadEarl]

Dude, count your lucky stars. With the snow, the sleet, the wind, it could be SO much worse.

We could have sharks.

Sharks with fricken lazers?

Sorry, couldn't resist! Snow is becoming an endangered species up here this week, unseasonably warm and rain forecast for Friday - but no sharks. We have pike and muskies though, they're like sharks, able to consume a fisherman's annual income fairly easily...

 

[Elio Amazed]

Furnace guy just left.
Intake blower has been dead since Sunday afternoon.
Ran electric heaters. Sunday night was way cold too cold.
I had to shut the water off and open all the faucets.

There are stories about the Kinzu dam in Tionesta PA.
It's said that divers refused to go down and inspect the dam...
After they allegedly saw channel cats large enought to swallow a man.

I was night fishing at a local dam and saw a couple guys in boat...
Bring in a 4-foot channel cat. It took both of them to carry it.

I used to go to a few out of the way holes...
In the small stream miles below another of our local dams.
We took quite a few 28" to 3-foot Northern with chubs.

I didn't like one of my casts one day...
and skipped the chub in across the top...
A monster muskie followed that thing...
And broke water just off shore at full speed.
It flew about three feet in the air...
And landed out of the water on the bank.

My buddy and I looked at each other and I yelled, "Get Him!"
We dove, but the muskie flopped a couple of times...
And rolled back in before we got to it.

Scared the hell out of us.

 

[Coss]

Furnace guy just left.
Intake blower has been dead since Sunday afternoon.
Ran electric heaters. Sunday night was way cold too cold.
I had to shut the water off and open all the faucets.

There are stories about the Kinzu dam in Tionesta PA.
It's said that divers refused to go down and inspect the dam...
After they allegedly saw channel cats large enought to swallow a man.

I was night fishing at a local dam and saw a couple guys in boat...
Bring in a 4-foot channel cat. It took both of them to carry it.

I used to go to a few out of the way holes...
In the small stream miles below another of our local dams.
We took quite a few 28" to 3-foot Northern with chubs.

I didn't like one of my casts one day...
and skipped the chub in across the top...
A monster muskie followed that thing...
And broke water just off shore at full speed.
It flew about three feet in the air...
And landed out of the water on the bank.

My buddy and I looked at each other and I yelled, "Get Him!"
We dove, but the muskie flopped a couple of times...
And rolled back in before we got to it.

Scared the hell out of us.

 

[Muzhik]

Sharks with fricken lazers?

Sorry, couldn't resist! Snow is becoming an endangered species up here this week, unseasonably warm and rain forecast for Friday - but no sharks. We have pike and muskies though, they're like sharks, able to consume a fisherman's annual income fairly easily...

Don't you have any walleye? And as far as "consuming a fisherman's income", that just means you need to change bait.

 

[CheeseheadEarl]

Don't you have any walleye? And as far as "consuming a fisherman's income", that just means you need to change bait.

Sure do, but I only chase them once in a while for food. Pike fishing is a lot more exciting.

My favorite is actually smallmouth bass, but I don't get to go after em as often as I'd like.

And you want me to buy MORE baits? I'm gonna need more overtime! [emoji2]

 

[bowers baldwin]

Not that these are trophy fish, but I can pull (no lie, with 3 people in the boat) 100 per hour, including a few white perch, bluegill, etc.
Maybe see one to 2 sm/lg mouth bass, but they are small.

 

[Elio Amazed]

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Not that these are trophy fish, but I can pull (no lie, with 3 people in the boat) 100 per hour, including a few white perch, bluegill, etc.
Maybe see one to 2 sm/lg mouth bass, but they are small.

Crappie are a lot of work because they're so small, but they they're tasty.

 

[Elio Amazed]

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All true.