It's Spring and the Fish Are Biting

leaningright

leaningright

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It's Spring and two things dominate my time with one coming in a third place. First, the crappie are biting in a bout 4 ft of water at about 2.5 - 3 ft deep. I've been keeping my boat hitched to my pickup and hitting the creek most afternoons after work. Second, getting my garden in the ground. Mostly seeds planted now and I have my cabbage set out. I'll be setting out my tomatoes sometime this weekend. Third on the list is golf. The course is getting greener every day and it is in great shape. I've been playing about 2 days a week all winter when the weather permits but it sure is nice to be hitting off of green grass now.

What does Spring bring for everyone else?
 
leaningright said:
It's Spring and two things dominate my time with one coming in a third place. First, the crappie are biting in a bout 4 ft of water at about 2.5 - 3 ft deep. I've been keeping my boat hitched to my pickup and hitting the creek most afternoons after work. Second, getting my garden in the ground. Mostly seeds planted now and I have my cabbage set out. I'll be setting out my tomatoes sometime this weekend. Third on the list is golf. The course is getting greener every day and it is in great shape. I've been playing about 2 days a week all winter when the weather permits but it sure is nice to be hitting off of green grass now.

What does Spring bring for everyone else?
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Golf, golf, and golf. And sometimes hitting balls. But I consider practice to be a subtle form of cheating, so I stay away from it as much as possible...to which my handicap will attest.

I did not play at all this winter. I have Reynaud's syndrome...and it is best I only play when the weather is warm. I used to play 5 days a week, but age has kicked my ass.
 
leaningright said:
It's Spring and two things dominate my time with one coming in a third place. First, the crappie are biting in a bout 4 ft of water at about 2.5 - 3 ft deep. I've been keeping my boat hitched to my pickup and hitting the creek most afternoons after work. Second, getting my garden in the ground. Mostly seeds planted now and I have my cabbage set out. I'll be setting out my tomatoes sometime this weekend. Third on the list is golf. The course is getting greener every day and it is in great shape. I've been playing about 2 days a week all winter when the weather permits but it sure is nice to be hitting off of green grass now.

What does Spring bring for everyone else?
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Flowers and the return of the birds that feed at my feeder. Cleaning up the pool and patio and getting things ready for the grands for summer.
 
We return to Anchorage April 12. About a week of spring skiing. But at least it will be above freezing during the day .
Luv getting back to my main abode although Hawai’i is nice.
 
Phantasmal said:
Flowers and the return of the birds that feed at my feeder. Cleaning up the pool and patio and getting things ready for the grands for summer.
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I feed birds all winter as well. I especially like when it snows ... that brings a lot of them to my yard. I've corrupted my son (he's 22) now and he has become quite the bird watcher. He and his girlfriend took a walk around Lake Hefner (an OKC lake) last weekend just to see what they could see. His girlfriend got some great shots of some pelicans.
 
With Spring in the air, I'm ready for a fishing trip.

But my fishing is kinda lazy. I have 3 big rod & reel setups for catfish. I put a rod holder in the ground, cast out and put the rod in the holder and relax.
 
I'm building my grandkids a redwood fort complete with a sliding board, swings, a zip line, and a picnic table. And a few fishing trips. My dentist has a 12 acre lake that has Florida bass, crappie, channel catfish, hybrid strippers and Florida bream. It is the BEST freshwater fishing I have ever done. Typically we take a few crappies and have a fish fry right at his farm. We throw the rest back.
 
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leaningright said:
It's Spring and two things dominate my time with one coming in a third place. First, the crappie are biting in a bout 4 ft of water at about 2.5 - 3 ft deep. I've been keeping my boat hitched to my pickup and hitting the creek most afternoons after work. Second, getting my garden in the ground. Mostly seeds planted now and I have my cabbage set out. I'll be setting out my tomatoes sometime this weekend. Third on the list is golf. The course is getting greener every day and it is in great shape. I've been playing about 2 days a week all winter when the weather permits but it sure is nice to be hitting off of green grass now.

What does Spring bring for everyone else?
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It's Autumn here now in South Africa, but Spring! Oh! New life!

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leaningright said:
It's Spring and two things dominate my time with one coming in a third place. First, the crappie are biting in a bout 4 ft of water at about 2.5 - 3 ft deep. I've been keeping my boat hitched to my pickup and hitting the creek most afternoons after work. Second, getting my garden in the ground. Mostly seeds planted now and I have my cabbage set out. I'll be setting out my tomatoes sometime this weekend. Third on the list is golf. The course is getting greener every day and it is in great shape. I've been playing about 2 days a week all winter when the weather permits but it sure is nice to be hitting off of green grass now.

What does Spring bring for everyone else?
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I miss your gardening/canning/fishing adventures.

So far Spring has brought us snow, snow, more snow. Our official total so far is 276 inches for the 25-26 winter. It's mostly gone now, hoping to get the peas and carrots planted within the next week, weather permitting. The daffodils are up! Won't have leaves on the trees though till the end of the month or beginning of June.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
I miss your gardening/canning/fishing adventures.

So far Spring has brought us snow, snow, more snow. Our official total so far is 276 inches for the 25-26 winter. It's mostly gone now, hoping to get the peas and carrots planted within the next week, weather permitting. The daffodils are up! Won't have leaves on the trees though till the end of the month or beginning of June.
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I admire your spirit.

But I could not.
 
WinterBorn said:
I'm in Georgia, just outside Atlanta. I love the warm climate now. But in July, August and September I will be cussing my choices. lol
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Hope you're not having the drought and wildfire stuff where you are. I lived in STL for 55 years and cursed the summers. How do you stand it down there? Can't even imagine how they did it before a/c!
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Hope you're not having the drought and wildfire stuff where you are. I lived in STL for 55 years and cursed the summers. How do you stand it down there? Can't even imagine how they did it before a/c!
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First of all, we pray every summer to St. Willis Carrier (inventor of air conditioning).

No, there aren't any major fires near me. Some in south Georgia though.

As for a drought, as bad as that can be, having lower humidity would be a welcome relief.

Where you are, when you get hot you sweat. The sweat evaporates and cools you.

Here when you get hot you sweat. But when the humidity is above 85% or 90%, the water doesn't evaporate. So you sweat, and you are just hot and wet. Not in a good way.
 
WinterBorn said:
First of all, we pray every summer to St. Willis Carrier (inventor of air conditioning).

No, there aren't any major fires near me. Some in south Georgia though.

As for a drought, as bad as that can be, having lower humidity would be a welcome relief.

Where you are, when you get hot you sweat. The sweat evaporates and cools you.

Here when you get hot you sweat. But when the humidity is above 85% or 90%, the water doesn't evaporate. So you sweat, and you are just hot and wet. Not in a good way.
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Makes it hard to spend any quality time outdoors, doesn't it? St. Louis (where we came from) is the same way in the summer. I've never understood people who say they hate winter and love summer, but then don't spend hardly any time outside in the hot months. It's dash to the car, dash to the front door, dash into the store, throw something on the grill, dash back inside, etc.

I pray to the same saint. lol
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
I miss your gardening/canning/fishing adventures.

So far Spring has brought us snow, snow, more snow. Our official total so far is 276 inches for the 25-26 winter. It's mostly gone now, hoping to get the peas and carrots planted within the next week, weather permitting. The daffodils are up! Won't have leaves on the trees though till the end of the month or beginning of June.
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Here’s a short video I did this past Saturday. Busy times here with school about to be out. Our son is taking a new job so we have to move him back to OKC. Stay warm up there.

View: https://youtu.be/z4unQV21Nps?feature=shared
 
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