Last weekend you could see our campfire from Mars.
We didn't look for planets last night and tonight is cloudy.
One thing we are glad to not see is a Lowe's house wrap.

So it's pretty strange that the compound homestead in these pictures I'm working on, is the house I will be giving up to my daughter. Have no idea what she will do with 5,000 square feet.
We are actually moving 50 yards into another house not pictured.
Lots of fun times in my 50 plus years but once we settle in, hopefully fun times ahead in the future

Something not right

Actually hate to say it but my reasons for missing this season are starting to become reality.
One popular eatery in Pulaski just closed because of an employee testing positive=
Yea- ya say only one -but how many even go out to be tested ?
 
Its here and its there and am too darned old with 'issues' to roll too many dice.
 
Hope for some Spring Steel if the vaccine comes out.
 
Tight lines and health to all who venture up to SR- please send in your experiences as some of us are virtual fishing through these threads-- lol.

Yeah, I'm back to fun stuff

So my projects continue to mount. What we thought would be a small roof job over this old sun porch is now turning into a complete rebuild. All the windows ( which were only storm windows) are being removed and the walls framed, sheathed so new real windows can be installed into framing. Eventually it will be re sided.
Hopefully this project will be completed by next week and we move forward to rebuild the back deck on the house we're moving into.
Trying to get as much outside work done as possible before the weather turns.
The new house needs to be finished painting inside and the subflooring in kitchen removed and replaced along with new flooring.
Our goal of moving in is mid to late October.
I have zero time for fishing as we are working on the house 7 days a week. Fun stuff here folks

Lots of people don't believe that Covid is to be taken with any seriousness around Pulaski. I thought about going 1st week of Oct. for some day trips, but the low water has turned me off to that.  I am going to the coast to camp and catch the fall run. 

Good luck with the Salt Charlie.
 
If I was close enough to do day trips to SR I would, if it rains, but 6 each way is a lot now.

6 is a bit much, T.   Have to be some good conditions to warrant napping in a rest area. I've slept in the cheap seats in  rest areas on the Thruway in  the back of my truck in the winter when they don't patrol for  asphalt campers, but  that's a different story.  I might reserve some time for coldish weather steel later, but the large uptick in Spey activity on other boards and how many people are planning to go has me spooked  a bit. Not into shuffle , cast, tell some lies about Atlantic Salmon, shuffle, cast........   The salt has been great to me this year, and I've felt safe fishing back in the  spartina grass and empty beaches. Camped in a park with huge sites and very few campers. Early on we did day trips.  A little over 3 hrs. and N drove 1 way. I took the  leave- at -1 am -shift., napped on the way home.

Welll- guess its time for my annual reporting rant-
Otherwise known as getum up here - we need the business--
 
When they tell ya on the web that the fishing is challenging- they are there for those in the right places-running in the early AM and then holding tight in deep holes-those who move around a lot and put in their time can find them-etc etc etc
It means there isnt a run going on.
Yea some fish, but NOT a run - frankly not even hearing about any  pods except perhaps for one or two in the very low end before spreading out even down there- or turning in the low waters and going back down.
Guys in the sluices yanking their number ones standing 8 feet apart all day will likely sooner or later take whatever is going up and try and make it look like a run- BIT IT AINT yet-- and it should be by now.
 
View from far--The old more fishermen than fish seems to be appropriate till somthing  changes -HOPE

The change needed is RAIN ,and the forecast is not promising.WE need one of those systems that is drenching the Gulf states to head NORTH!