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December 21 Oil Patch Follies.I'm posting some truck photos from the Oil Patch. I received them as an attachment to an e-mail. Where they originated or who took them I don't know. I certainly would give credit if I knew who took them. If they are yours and you object to my posting them please inform me and I will give credit or remove them as you wish.
Stuck! How about these for stuck?
December 02 Rat Tails.Went to Osprey Lake yesterday on a calendar, half fish, day. Spent hours looking down an empty hole watching not much swim by. Mid day I think, a one pounder was stupid enough to bite my hook and get pulled into the tent where he flopped around, spilling my coffee and knocking my sausage roll down the hole..........in the end his willfulness cost him his life. I got one, John caught about four and Mark got skunked.
So prior to that, I'm sitting in my ice fishing tent playing 'Submarines' on my cell phone, suddenly, directly under the surface of the ice beneath my feet, I noticed a large dark object approaching my hole. First thought, 'large trout', second thought 'WTF!!!" Startled and resisting the almost overpowering urge to make large movements or sing out, I gently jiggled my hook and tried to stay very still. WTF again, not a fish at all, Mr. Muskrat blows a bubble then pops his nose up the hole. Eyeball to eyeball with me, he took a quick breath and a brief gander before diving down again and swimming away. He did this several times, once almost pulling himself up the hole and out of the water. We were face to face, not two feet apart. Very cool! For the full effect one must experience such an incident for oneself.
Fortunately, a couple of weeks ago, John had had mentioned that Muskrats were in the habit of doing this on Osprey, so I remembered and didn't crap my pants the first time Ratty popped up. John said, he'd had one do it to him one day when he wasn't in his tent but rather, was lying on the ice looking down face first with his head over top of his hole. Scared the shit out of him!
Man it was cold up there yesterday, light snow, watery sunshine, -12°C with a stiff breeze. Even in the tent it wasn't exactly comfortable. We were there from 09:00 til around 13:00, I had on, my forty below boots, the bottom half of my old Skidoo suit, plus a fuzzy fleece and heavy coat, but by the time we left my feet, hands and shoulders were getting very cold. By eight o'clock last night the top of my knees were still cold, in fact if I think about it, I can still feel the chill in them this morning.
Snowing this morning, -8°. Red screen, with a heavy snowfall warning for us, on the TV Weather Channel.
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