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The smell of cookies baking in the oven.

Decorating every room in the house.

Celebration of the birth of Christ.

The family dinner is always something to look forward to.

It’s a time for enjoying old memories and creating new ones.

Taking a healthy walk in snow covered woods.

All of those once per year Christmas songs.

Decorating. It just makes it feel official.

Family, food, and fun.

I always look forward to snow on the ground, but not on the roads.

Enjoying the deer jerky my dad and I would often make.

The annual Christmas symphony by the Pittsburgh Symphony Brass at St James Church.

Hoping for a new rod for pan-fishing to be under the tree.

Christmas always brings the opportunity to reflect on all the good times with good friends that occurred during the year.

Christmas always brings the chance that the turkey is still frozen and dinner becomes coconut crusted crappie!

It is always a day when some new jigs might be found in the stocking to make winter just a little bit shorter.

Watching some football games that usually have no local significance after the big feast.

Christmas always yields new opportunities to make new friendships at dinners and parties.

Enjoying all the good food that day often including some type of smoked fish snacks.

Being with family and friends every Christmas! Praying for another with my dad who has been seriously ill since April.

Sure would like to get back into some of that fun this winter. Not being a lightweight, I always want to hear 6" of clear ice in place before seriously thinking about it. Caught a nice fish fry's...

One other benefit to the catch for me is that some good crappie fillets make a great Pennsylvania surf and turf with the deer steak!

It is also such a thrill in clear water to watch a crappie approach a jig & nibble, open its mouth, flair its gills, and then inhale the jig. It is far more appealing to the eye than to watch me...

I also like crappie fishing as the results led me to one of my finest skillet creations---Coconut Crusted Crappie. Better than potato chips any day of the week.

I enjoy the challenge of which color, what depth, what jig style will be the meal ticket of the day.

I think the crappies better have themselves a good feed over these 3 days coming up. The big arctic blow is going to change our world over the weekend with an instant change from lawn mowing to...

They are fun to catch, fun to eat, and fun to enjoy catching or eating with friends and family.

Great Before and After photo Smitty!!! Sometimes its nice to catch just a few for a great snack lunch.

The recording indicates the courtesy docks come out next week. Restrooms are shut down now. Looks like some warmer temps are coming for at least part of next week Smitty. I fear this weekend...

Saw that same migration while shore fishing below 846 Smitty. It was a continuous stream of them playing follow the leader. I caught one on my 4.5' ultralight. OH what a fight. I put it back...