A poet don't you know it. Hope i did blow it. mark...............lol
From: "Jimmy D. Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [VFB] TEXAS Fishing Frustration ! Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:45:00 -0500
We have a saying here in the Lone Star state. " If you don't like the weather, hang around a few minutes, it'll change. Truthfully, I've seen it rain, shine, hail, sleet and snow over the period of a couple of hours.
As I told you early this morning, I had to get off the air because of a passing thunderstorm. Well, that didn't take long and the radar cleared. Not a cloud in the sky for the last two hours, so I decided to head to the lake for a little fishing, using my pontoon craft.
Just as I was about to load my pontoon boat and head to the lake, it came one of our famous, "Out of Nowhere Rains". Guess the Weather Service radar missed that one. Mind you, I've been waiting for the levels of lakes and streams to drop from the last two big rains, 6 inches last week and 5 inches two weeks before that. I just checked the rain gauge and she's near one inch in the last 45 minutes.
Can't go fishing till later, but my little poem below helps ease my frustration.
FISHING TIME IN TEXAS The rains came and then they went It rained so hard my pontoon boat bent.
I pulled to the bank and unloaded my gear Walked up to my truck and had a cold beer.
The rain then stopped and the winds now blow. My pontoon boat across the pond does go.
To the other side in my truck I wait like a fool. The wind just shifted and my pontoon did too.
Back across the pond goes my pontoon craft. I follow it over, but my butt's really Chapped.
All wet and weary I watch the progress of my little boat. as it makes a perfect landing, just like I'd hoped.
The wind has stopped, and so has the rain. The sun is out and it's FISHING TIME in Texas Again!
JIMMY D. MOORE June 22, 2004
P.S. I hope to get out on the lake late this afternoon. My full fishing report later this afternoon, unless the wind and rains come again.
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Jimmy D. Moore - Retired Scout Executive, BSA, Moderator Fly Fishing World Email List,Member VFB, HCFF, GRTU, FFF, NAFC - Life Member. Contributor - Texas Fish & Game Magazine. Outdoor Humor Writer. Author of "MOON HOLLER MISFITS" Click URL for info.
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