Icing on the Lake . . .
Open Water = Hope
(NYC)
Punxsutawney Phil predicted on February 2nd an early spring. He has been correct but for two spells of clear, cold artic gale.
The ice left behind the windswept spells retreats by half after just a day or two warm enough to compell the morning doves to coo.
One can walk the pond’s bank, hear garrulous bluejay’s, and the polite tufted titmouse can be seen in the park’s bare deciduous trees. A streamer shuffled across the ice until it drops with a wake into open water can at this time of year lead to a large largemouth on the line.
Winter Bass
(NYC)
Black Crappie, too, the icing on the lake.
Crappie in the Cold
(NYC)
Thanks, Phil.
— rPs 02 27 2019
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