Wayne SW/MO Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 I heard that also and the conservation commission swears by it. But it looks to me like they have somehow done some adapting. I don't have the best memory, but I don't think we have had a winter with these long below freezing periods for a long time. When is the last time we had snow on the ground for this long? Today's release is tomorrows gift to another fisherman.
Justin Spencer Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 I don't have the best memory, but I don't think we have had a winter with these long below freezing periods for a long time. When is the last time we had snow on the ground for this long?Been a long time, snow on ground and frozen ground means armadillos go hungry, hopefully. "The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it." –Abraham Lincoln Tales of an Ozark Campground Proprietor Dead Drift Fly Shop
Feathers and Fins Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 Who cares about the Dillos, this means less TICKS and that is a dam good thing. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Beaver-Lake-Arkansas-Fishing-Report/745541178798856
drew03cmc Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 I don't have the best memory, but I don't think we have had a winter with these long below freezing periods for a long time. When is the last time we had snow on the ground for this long? I think it was in 2010, we had a blanket of snow from Christmas to early March. Less ticks is a good thing after having Lyme disease. Andy
Old plug Posted February 11, 2014 Posted February 11, 2014 I remember one in St Louis must have been inthe 80s. Was worst than this. lets hope it is about over. I only got about 3 wheelbarrows of wood left.
Feathers and Fins Posted February 11, 2014 Posted February 11, 2014 Looks like the its over for a while, Now the issue is where to go this weekend wit temps almost 60! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Beaver-Lake-Arkansas-Fishing-Report/745541178798856
Wayne SW/MO Posted February 11, 2014 Posted February 11, 2014 I think it was in 2010, we had a blanket of snow from Christmas to early March. Less ticks is a good thing after having Lyme disease. Yeah, but you live on the Tundra. Today's release is tomorrows gift to another fisherman.
Al Agnew Posted February 11, 2014 Posted February 11, 2014 There were three cold snowy winters in a row around 1978-1981. One of my friends owned a high end hiking/canoeing/backpacking shop back then, and by the end of the second winter, cross country skis were in big demand. He ordered in a bunch of them for the next winter and sold them like crazy. Ordered in another big bunch of them for the winter after that, and there wasn't ever enough snow to use them. He ended up with just about every pair of skis he'd ordered for that last year, unable to sell them. It was that third bad winter, if I remember correctly, that the Mississippi formed an ice dam somewhere around Tower Rock, and people actually walked across the river. Sometime in the late 1980s/early 1990s we had an extremely cold and snowy December. Mary and I had decided to set up a kiosk in the South County (St. Louis) Mall to sell my prints. She drove every day from our place in Ste. Genevieve County up to the mall to work the kiosk. For nearly the whole month of December, the parking lot at the mall was covered in snow and ice, and people were getting stuck on the level parking lot when their tires would be in depressions in the ice. Mary really suffered having to stay and work til 10 PM and then come out to zero and below temps to drive home, and there were several nights that I drove up during the day to drive her home and leave a car there, because I was afraid of her driving in snowstorms. And then there was the huge March snowstorm in the Cape Girardeau area during one of those cold years in the late 70s, I believe. 34 inches, all in one day and night. My first wife Pat and I were living in Jackson, but we had come up to my parents' house in St. Francois County for a visit when the snow hit. At Mom and Dad's house there was only an inch or so, but we kept hearing about all the snow to the south that night. The next morning, we had to be back down in Jackson to go to our teaching jobs (we thought), and (we thought) how bad could it be? So we took off for Jackson, heading across Highway 32 toward I-55. The farther we got along 32, the more snow there was, but it wasn't bad until we got to the exact spot where the driveway to my present house is, and there we encountered a five foot drift across the highway, with the state patrol turning back everybody. We were unable to get back to Jackson for five days.
bfishn Posted February 12, 2014 Posted February 12, 2014 There's water dripping from my roof right now. Real. liquid. water. The day was noticeably longer. If I close my eyes I can hear spring frogs (or maybe it's my tinnitus). I can't dance like I used to.
blue79 Posted February 19, 2014 Posted February 19, 2014 A couple of years ago when we had a couple of nights of below zero temps, including one night where it hit -14, I hoped for a dillo die-off. It did not happen. It didnt happen this time either.Went to the river below stockton dam yesterday and saw this guy rooting around.
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