Awaiting Winter...

The weather is continuing to get colder and I am still not 'ready' for it. Last winter seemed to last forever and I am not looking forward to going through that again so soon. We haven't seen any snow yet, but there seems to be a series of storms coming through that will resolve that problem sooner or later - probably sooner...

I went fishing at a new spot with a new fishing buddy, Dennis. He has an older little boat with an outboard jet motor that is pretty scary looking but runs pretty good. I always wear my life vest and after two short trips, it seems ok, but I am not too good with boats since becoming a Lary. Anyway, we went to Auger Falls, which is a mile or so up from Scotts Access where I bank fish a lot. He drove the boat up from a few miles down the river and picked me up at Scotts as I didn't feel comfortable going through the tougher parts of the river down stream. There is a big round 'hole' there that is about 150 yards around and had a depth of about 95 feet. We had lots of bites but caught only one nice 6 foot Sturgeon. He actually caught it, but got tired bringing it in and I finished the job. He said that they usually will catch 4-6 fish a day there. I caught 2 bait stealing squaw fish, er Pike Minnows as they are now called. They are not minnows or have anything to do with a Pike but 'Squaw' is not a PC acceptable word anymore... We ended up using one of them for bait which had some justice to it, but didn't work...

I want to go back there. It was one of the nicest places I have been to for Sturgeon fishing and I think has real possibilies. The only real problem is that you have to boat into it. It is suppose to become a city park next year, but it is still a hike down the cliffs once you get there via land.

Pool is going well, sorta. I am usually wining 3 of my 4 games a match and have a number of table runs, but as always it could be better. Now that the weather is turning colder, I will be spending much more time practising pool than fishing so it should get better real soon.

The new Cat, Felix, is growing and doing well. He is really wearing out Cali, our older female cat, by attacking her and chasing her all over the place. Without claws, they are just playing, but you can only have sooo much fun... Felix is just so active when he is awake. He still loves to sleep with us, which we love, but still thinks everybody should be up playing with him when it gets light in the morning - Grumble, grumble...

Soon, in the next week or so, I am going to focus on cleaning and redoing the garage that has been reduced to a pile of stuff over the hetic summer fishing season. It isn't that big of a deal and should only take a few days to get it all squared away again.

Next week is Turkey Day and the always exciting Black Friday early morning sales, which I have been going to the past couple of years. They usually start about 4am and there are usually some amazing deals so I will be out there doing them again, I am sure.

Well, that is about all that is fit to print here in DaHo...