I will be out for the next few days. We will head out to spend time with family. Never fear, there will be some time spent in the field and on the water as well. I will report when I get back.
In the meantime, Thanksgiving is an uniquely American holiday. We love the time with family, the feasts, the football games and everything else, but in the middle of it all we sometimes forget to pause and be thankful. I am thankful to live in such a prosperous and free country where I can pursue my passion and actually make a living out of it! Is this a great country or what? I am thankful to live in a place where we have the luxury of so much recreational time and money, and a place where we have been good stewards of our natural resources, our fish & wildlife resources. I am thankful to call Nebraska home; a state with such a diversity of fish & wildlife resources, natural beauty, and great people (“There is NO place like Nebraska”). I am thankful that we have more water now than we had a couple of years ago. I am thankful for the health to enjoy it all. And I am thankful with family to share it with.
Along those lines,
Think of the many reasons why YOU are thankful for fishing…
spending time with family?
enjoying the outdoors?
the thrill of the catch?
fishing buddies?
….now imagine sharing your passion for fishing with someone new.
– a simple promise to introduce someone new to the sport of fishing.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
You might want to keep your head down there, Tom, for the next few days anyhow (That reminds me, I am also thankful that we have more wild turkeys now than we ever dreamt was possible).
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There are a couple of news items I want to get out for folks.
Pawnee Park in Columbus
The first one deals with the fall catchable trout stocking at Pawnee Park in Columbus. We delayed the stocking of those trout this fall because of some poor water quality in the Pawnee Park ponds. As of last week the dissolved oxygen levels in the east Pawnee Park pond was still a little lower than we would have liked, while the aerated west pond was good. So all 1,500 catchable-size rainbows were stocked in the west pond last Thursday.
Lake Ogallala
Secondly, I have a couple of photos of some of the work that is being done at Lake Ogallala this fall. Anybody who fishes there would be interested in the excavation and dredging they are doing, and if you take a look at these photos you will see why.
Excavation being done in the "narrows" area of Lake Ogallala. The deepening here should improve circulation between the deep, north basin and the rest of the impoundment.
We plan to start stocking trout back into Lake Ogallala early next spring. Those fish will grow at a phenomenal rate, we have documented trout growth rates there as fast as an inch per month. We will have some excellent trout fishing at Lake Ogallala next year!
This is going to be a short week, but I want to get some short posts up here before the Thanksgiving holiday.
First of all, here is a little rundown on my weekend. We have 3 oak trees in our yard and they produce an incredible amount of leaves. So there was some of this over the weekend,
Just one of the piles of leaves. Actually this pile grew to the size of a Volkswagen before we mulched it down and bagged it.
My family did most of the leaf work this year. I got in on just a little bit of it. Thanks family!
And then the kids and I went to the Husker game Saturday night.
Yep, that’s me in the red & white coveralls! I live and die Husker football, probably a little more passionately than I should sometimes (8 turnovers against Iowa State was more than I could stand!). It sure was nice to see the Blackshirts send the kitty cats back to Kansas with their 3 points! I was a little “horse” on Sunday! “DEEE–FENCE”, “SUUUUUUUUUUUUUH”!
Oh, and no, I am not done fishing for the fall yet.
She took a neutrally-buoyant crankbait, fished S-L-OW, sitting still more than it was moving. I am guessing she was right around 4 pounds. Largemouth bass in 49 degree F water fight about like an old shoe, but anytime I scratch a fish this late in the fall it is great! We do not have ice yet, so I am planning to do a little more open-water fishing before I give up this fall. Stay tuned . . .
