I don't know folks, we had heavy rains all day yesterday and another covering of snow this morning. Since, our day today has been a light steady rainy gloomy day.
Getting to my truck in the driveway now is becoming muck boots let alone walking anywhere out the back door...
Streams are handling it ok but river is a mighty muddy again.
I, we really need some sunshine in our lives right now !!
Btw, striper fishing sucks so far

Late Spring aside, i've never seen so many people fishing. License sales are at an all time high in Vt., with a sixty percent increase. Lots of Vt. plates in NY, though it's semi- illegal to cross in the other direction. Yeah, mud.  Tis the season, but still hard to deal with.  More googans than I've ever seen out and about. The scoff law of the year award will undoubtedly go to the new striper slot limit.  Hope the mud sends a few of the crowd home with their  (not stripers) tails dragging. 

Happy birthday HT.  Sorry mother nature didn't provide a nicer day.   

Holy rain Batman......

Grass was getting to the "gotta do it" stage, so I splurge on a new mower, and of course it rains. And rains. I've had a bad itch to catch some wild brookies so I called a friend in Vt. who has the skinny on them. Still six inches on the ground and axle burying mud where it aint. I've been snowed on fishing wild ponds on Memorial Day, so I guess I was being awful optimistic. This weekend looks good for  hacking grass, maybe get the canoe out and fish flooded backwaters for largemouth and pike. Lilac buds are swelling outside my kitchen window, this weekend it will  seem as if you are watching  them open in slow motion.  

Thanks Gerry. Any day above ground is better than below.
I've really been stressed this week with work, home projects and sucks weather.
No matter, I'm heading to a deserted island to camp for the next 3days.
The river is a complete mess and the fishing will be terrible but I just don't care, I need time away to reflect.

River upstream is running high, but clear. Might settle into a good time. Kinda sucks I wasted the money on gear for fishing  " deserted islands", but I can pass it on to a friend's autistic son.  Works out.
    Mysotis carpets ,forget-me-nots,  exploded out yesterday,  a huge bald eagle flew directly overhead while I was wading, and the smallie fishing continued to be out-frickin'-standing. Screw the cancer, the suns out.
 
 
   

Rain & Snow showers in NW PA this Friday so says the weatherfolks.

In the meantime, possibility of frost again.

427 AM EDT Wed May 6 2020

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwest Pennsylvania.

.DAY ONE, Today and tonight.


Anybody see a groundhog by the name of Phil??

Had frost this morning. Was supposed to rain today but so far so good. With no wind, decided to go fishing with my son

3 inches of snow yesterday and today I could mow the grass. Wind is howling putting off a trip to sylvan beach for walleye off the wall. Maybe next week