Lake Superior Ice Pack - March 3

This picture, provided by those socialists at the NOAA (you know, as Bobby Jindal says, "pictures from space ? who needs that ?") shows a pretty dramatic ice pack on the Great Lake this winter. Hope it bodes well for water levels in the U.P. this summer.

There is an almost ice bridge all the way out to Isle Royale. I don't think that happens very often.

Jan 31 Snowpack

Yes, we are having a real winter here in the midwest this year.

Lightning and Angling

Two weeks ago, from 35,000 feet over the Sea of Japan, I got lucky and snapped this view from the opposite side of a big cloud. Some half remembered W.S Burroughs quote popped into my mind about images flickering in a dying mans brain like lightning in a distant thunderstorm at night.

And today - in the Field and Stream Flytalk blog:

A fly rod exploded by lightning.

"Have you ever been in the river, or out on the flats, and those clouds roll in... then the hair on your arms stands up... then your rod starts to hum? That's a pretty good sign that you might want to drop the rod. This is what it looks like when a fly rod gets zapped."

read the whole post here

Go look at the moon

right now ....

Moon pics by Shaq @ www.theanglersnet.com