Thread: HEADS UP !

I don't mind the hunt. That is part of the fun. It is the extreme hot and extreme cold that I mind.

stay tuned , extreme hot is slowly exiting stage left

enter extreme rain, stage right. I got soaked, getting to my car the other night. But we do need the rain, given the lake is around 6' low now.

I’m with EZ, I love the hunt.
The heat I don’t like, but tolerate.
Never gets to cold to go fishing!
8” of rain last week alone.
First year I can remember, my lake is above normal September 1, and hasn’t been below normal pool all summer.


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Originally Posted by Redge

I’m with EZ, I love the hunt.
The heat I don’t like, but tolerate.
Never gets to cold to go fishing!
8” of rain last week alone.
First year I can remember, my lake is above normal September 1, and hasn’t been below normal pool all summer.


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When I was younger I said the same thing about heat and cold. I loved to fish while it was snowing and I've fished for wild rainbow trout when I had to break the ice out of my line guides after every cast. But since I passed 70 I've become less tolerant of the extremes of weather. I still don't mind fishing in a moderate rain but when it starts coming down in buckets I want to be inside watching it rain, not outside taking a bath with my clothes on.

every winter i have to dip my rod in the water to take the ice out of the guides
of course i havent gotten old enough to know better just yet ,but with any luck i might

Yes I use to dip my rod in the water here to get the ice off the guides too! I use to go to school with a short sleeve shirts when it was like 40 out and play freeze out with outer guys in the car in winter. We would drive with the windows down until someone couldn't take it any longer, lol!

Now here i am some 50 years later and let me tell you my knees are the first to know it's getting cooler and the pain is the sign of a cold front coming. Also I use to like my AC set low, now I like it just fine at 74 (use to think that hot and uncomfortable) and in winter I set my heater at night at 68, but under covers, lol! Just saying things change and some of mine may be the blood thinners I have been on now 20 years and know my thin blood is not helping as much as it use to, but also this old many thin skin is also part of the problem.

Anyway you younger pups just keep in mind, thing will change for you too so anything you can do now to help your health later, maybe should think about doing it or them?

Oh I am 72, knew shot, right shoulder is shot, left is not great, hands are a mess with arthritis and carpal tunnel, have plated and screws in lower back at age 41, had 5 bypass surgery 20 years ago. Think about your future and try to help yourself from becoming like me!

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i slowed way up since i hit 60 , i make it a point not to suffer very much any more