Endless Winter.

Finally got away to the cabin for a pinochle playing weekend. Got out for long enough to catch one brookie. Only fell once, managed to keep the truck on the icy gravel road, and won the card tournament. It was a good weekend, but I think I 'll wait for warmer conditions to fish again.
 
I will say, until yesterday’s relatively “warm” rain, I was impressed with how much the ice held on on our local streams from that last polar vortex. Flows are higher now, which will make them slower to freeze, but it’s gonna be darn cold again this week. Probably looking at 96 hours+ straight below 32F for most of the state.
 
We went from severe flooding Saturday into Sunday to snow Sunday night into this morning, with a winter storm warning in place now for tomorrow into Wed.

So...yeah. All that water from the flooding, I suspect a good portion of it is gonna freeze over now. Nice.
 
The struggle is real! Being a roofer I'm layed off, it's to miserable to do anything outside. Iv tied some flys but done alot of nothing. To much snow to shed hunt , our rivers where frozen solid for a month couldn't fish. I just wanna get outside. Hate to say it I wanna go back to work so atleast I'm doing something other then getting fat.
 
The good news for me at least is the storm we were supposed to have Wednesday into Thursday is now nowhere to be seen in the forecasts for my neck of the woods.

That means I can do a Wegman's run for oysters on Wednesday and maybe do a little fishing this week too!!
 
been hard to do much outside for me. i'm usually getting all my outside stuff done this time of year. i've got a pile of wood to finish splitting but it's too cold.

looks like next week this cold will break. i'll be busy.
 
I’m a big fan of true winter. This one is getting there, but still not a true winter based on past experiences growing up in Berks and having lived in various parts of the state. Using Berks and Lehigh as the best examples, I have a few indices of a true winter that have yet to be touched. We have yet to have had an 8” snowfall, let alone the usual 2-3 12-24” snow storms per winter of the first half of my life. Late Feb and March can bring them though and in a rarity, so can April (April 8, 1982…about a foot of snow at Green Lane Res, Mont Co interrupts survey, May 18, 1976 …snowing in Pleasant Gap, Centre Co and during the Colyer Lake survey). Ice on the lakes was usually thick enough for ice fishing between Christmas and New Years. Now we wait and waited until half-way through January. By now the lake ice was often 18” thick. It’s 6-8” now on my reference lakes, past and present. If I want to fish, I ice fish, although during warm winters like last yr’s, I hit the wild trout streams. When there’s snow, I cross country ski and snowshoe after I shovel or I take a local kid plus my wife sledding and tobogganing. All is enjoyable, gets me into the woods and fields, and keeps the fat off. If there’s no snow or very little, mountain bike or hike. Both will keep you warm and get you afield.
 
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