08-10-2024, 03:09 PM
(08-10-2024, 02:01 PM)MrShane Wrote: I have read it and it makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
The only reason I have not been before is because of my disease of wanting to lay in the snow and ice for hours waiting for a flock of Honkers to descend on me low and slow.
I would be privileged to go to Willard this fall with you, what is your favorite week to go?
I don’t winterize my boat so it can be as late as you want.
I will even throw in a heater for our fingertips if it is late as I think you like to go.
Sorry I did not get you up to DC.
My wife and I have lost 3 out of the 4 of our parents in last 16 months with 2 of them being mine.
I am their executor and I can’t believe how much paperwork still needed to be completed for months and months after their passing.
I have an Elk hunt next week and that is my only big game tag for the year so let’s get this date on the calendar and I will make it happen!
As with most Utah fishing, every year seems to shape up differently...with the fish showing up more in some places than others...or preferring different lures, baits or presentations. But as a general rule, the perch start showing up by late September and usually get progressively more catchable right up until iceup...which is usually around the first week or so in December. But this last year the lake did not cap until February...and I caught perch from my float tube all through December and into January.
If we were to make any kind of advance plans, I would target somewhere around the middle of November. But whatever plans we make will be tempered with current conditions and reports from other perch jerkers. Of course, I will be conducting my own research throughout the period and should have some personal insights to help guide our final plans.
I hear ya on the aftermath of parents' passing. I moved both of my parents in with me in Arizona for the final years of their lives. Both were in bad health, with my dad being in advanced stages of Alzheimers. Endless visits to doctors and hospital stays. My dad passed in August of 2003 and my mother almost exactly one year later. They were not wealthy but there are always details to be handled and final expenses to be dealt with.
I lost my oldest son a year ago to lingering bad health. And a couple of months ago we lost a troubled granddaughter to suicide. That's tough for even a hardened old bird like me. No matter how much we think we can handle, there are always things that remind us of our own fragility and mortality.
Thankfully, there is fishing and other outdoor pursuits for therapy.