Rant: Muddy water

[jim]

Heavy storms this morning buggered up the water, they are running like chocolate milk. Last second decision had to be made: write off the weekend. This weather has just sucked ass this year, for everything. We had about 2 good weeks of fishing, and that's been it. Next weekend I'll try it again, and hope mother nature cooperates.

I hate canceling fishing weekends.

[cardsfantx]

thought this was going to be a completely different topic

[lukethedrifter]

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[lukethedrifter]

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Fishing+Wit ... LgUW?src=5

Well, Bill, I bet he is a good fly caster.
He grew up on these eastern brooks.
Me, I grew up on the midwestern cricks
Casting crappie flies for chubs and such.
But in my young imagination,
I watched a Number 20 Coachman settle down,
Sitting by the stove in that little library
Reading Roderick L. Haig Brown.
I never did fish in Vancouver. I probably never will.
I don't care. I'm goin' fishin' with Bill.

Well, it's a long and noble tradition,
Catching trout on the fly.
When you're done, with the setting of the sun,
Gonna drink a little bourbon if you're dry.
See some folks out on the river,
Cool, scientific and clean.
They look like everything just kinda stuck to them
The last time they walked through ol' L. L. Bean.
My friend, Dave, says the good fishermen are the ones who have fun and we will.
Oh I, I'm goin' fishin' with Bill.

[jim]

I like that. He mentions Wisconsin too.

I made the right decision, report from the Driftless Angler up in Viroqua:

Another 1-3 inches of rain last night means things will remain muddy all day today. We had 4-6 inches between Friday morning and Saturday morning.
Although things will clear up fairly quickly, today will be a bust.
Add to that, a killer humid day with a heat index in the mid 90s. A good day to stay home.

These particular creeks muddy up very quickly. It's amazing how you can go from these gin clear waters to chocolate milk over night. They clear quickly, and having poked around in every nook cranny of this particular region I know which ones clear up quicker and where to find the headwaters of some that are fishable. But not today, today everything will just be a mess. Also those headwater areas are tough to get to, with the heat today and the black flies it would just be miserable.

I'm waiting for the lightening to stop and I'm going to go out throw a big deer hair for some bass. But man it's pouring here.

[IndyCards13]

Lucky you. It hasn't rained here in a while. Walk on the dirt here and this big 'ole dust cloud comes out. The ground is hard as a rock. Need some rain here, mind sending some of that stormy weather here?

[Radbird]

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Wish I had remembered this one. There's nothing I could post in the Country Music thread that would surpass this in jim's eyes.

I have been deposed.

[jim]

Wow, weekend not turning out like I planned. Did go out for an hour this morning bass hunting (skunked), came back and they were wheeling my neighbor out in a body bag. Dead.

He was close to 90 and wasn't in good shape so not unexpected, but still ... kind of unexpected to see that. This time yesterday the only dead thing I thought I would run into was a trout, instead it's a neighbor.