Bewteen Another Set of Seasons

As I’ve previously posted I’m in the off-seasons of football and track and that I’m now strength and speed training. However, I’m also between another set of seasons and that is spring spawn fishing and turkey hunting and I’m training (in a sense) by keeping myself in the outdoors ice fishing and coyote hunting.

Wolf hunting and ice fishing to catch some hard chased bluegills and crappies I can only endure so much, as the cold on a day when things are slow sucks the heat of my optimism and patience away from my numb fingers. One can only use his fingers to deice his line and grasp the cold barrel of his .243 so many times before he wishes he was some place warm watching Bill Dance catching a big largemouth bass. Or at least in the warm comfort of his home getting ready for the spring seasons of turkey hunting and open water fishing.

So… that is what I find myself more often doing as the spring approaches in the next six weeks, and as glimpses of warm days to come are caught by a two or three day stretch of 40 degree weather (typically this winter it is then followed by some below ten or twenty degree temperatures). I’ve been cleaning my 12 gauge shotgun every time that I clean my .243 high- power after ‘yote hunting in preparation for aiming the sights towards a long bearded gobbler. I’ve also been cleaning my reels and respooling some six pound line and some 20 pound (for the spring thaw out on the larger lakes when the dead shad bunch up and the catfish gorge themselves).

It seems impossible to think of the spring coming, and I long (and I believe all of Iowa does too) for the return of some “mild” temperatures. As long as it stays cold though I’ll keep pursuing after some fish under some twenty- two inches of ice and I’ll keep tracking and letting my hounds loose at some “vagabond dogs”. In the meantime I’m going to keep going home to warm up watching some old rerun fishing shows and getting ready for those doomed (I hop) tom turkeys and aggressive spawning walleyes and bass. Good luck and good hunting to all you fellow sportsmen.