A week ago, today, it was in the 50's here in N. Illinois. Grandson and I
both got new fishing reels from his father for Christmas so I suggested he
call my son and arrange a fishing trip in his boat for Sunday. Didn't
occur to me that it might turn colder. Water was still soft, so we did go
and caught a couple of nice Walleye, but I tell you, the wind chill in a
boat moving along at 40 or so was evil. Got off the water just as it
started raining. Never thought that I would ever be in a boat on the Pec
river in January but all in all it was a fine day.

Tom G.

And on 12/31, my wife and I were out all day on our local chain of lakes in
our shorts and t-shirts! Of course, that's probably not as unusual here in
Florida as it is in Illinois...


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:19:23 GMT, "Tom G"
wrote:

A week ago, today, it was in the 50's here in N. Illinois. Grandson and I
both got new fishing reels from his father for Christmas so I suggested he
call my son and arrange a fishing trip in his boat for Sunday. Didn't
occur to me that it might turn colder. Water was still soft, so we did go
and caught a couple of nice Walleye, but I tell you, the wind chill in a
boat moving along at 40 or so was evil. Got off the water just as it
started raining. Never thought that I would ever be in a boat on the Pec
river in January but all in all it was a fine day.

Hard to believe huh?

Just yesterday, there were nine boats on a local lake - nine.

I'm almost tempted to take out my Princecraft just to take a ride.