Yeah - but if you fall in the water you are DONE in about fifteen minutes....

The lake near me is at 46 degrees right now. That's enough to strip your body heat away in no time (a thing they taught us at length in basic training for the NAVY).

I still think of fishing as having three levels:
1) I'll use a hook and line
2) If the fish don't bite, I'll start throwing a net.
3) If the above don't work and I am so fortunate as to have a mask and flippers and a spear - I'll go in after them!

But I no longer have a mask and flips, there's no wetsuit available, and I'd have to trust your boat-craft.


Kripes, WHY NOT?
If I get out your way - YOU'RE ON!!!


I still love stream and brook fishing more than anything else. Spot a ripple, and plop a baited hook upstream from it. The results are reliable....


I dunno if I mentioned it before - my Momma drove all the way across Canada in an Oldsmobile with a lady friend of hers, and even sent me a "MOOSE" coffee cup and a Fairbanks Alaska T-shirt to me while I was on a west-pac cruise one year. Now, if she could do that, why shouldn't I?

I owe it to her... After all, who's son am I?
I'm sure my late father would approve as well.