[VFB] Bad Storm in Waco

[Jimmy D. Moore]

Woke up at 4:30 a.m. to solid lightening "ground strokes" very close by, 
thunder rattling the windows like an earthquake, ( yes, I speak from 
experience), and 60 mph winds.  Peaches and Grey had a fit to come into 
the house from the garage.  Thunder and lightening scare them to death. 
They immediately made a bee line for our closet, where they stayed until 
just a little while ago.  Jody and I had just put our  10 X 10 gazebow 
up on the deck day before yesterday.  Good thing I anchored it.  Thought 
it was gonna go anyway, but the anchor bolts held.  Weather service 
reported funnel clouds.  Lasted from 4:30 until around 9:00 a.m.  Got 1" 
of rain, which will do our garden, lawn and Jody's flowers much good. 
Woodway has well water and plants don't do their best with it.

Now to make this post legal.  Lake Waco really needed the rain.  With 
heavy rains here and NW of us, the three rivers feeding the lake will 
bring the lake level up 2-3 feet. That will be great, for the tops of 
the Cara Weed will just be poking above the surface and the big bass 
will be lying in wait for a tasty morsel.  I'll give the bass a couple 
of days to settle before venturing to the lake.  All my bass over 8 
pounds (6) on Lake Waco have come from weedbeds shortly after a good 
spring or early fall rain on my specially designed buzzbait.   Now if I 
could only devise a miniature buzzbait for fly fishing!  The problem is 
that it would be so light that the propellers wouldn't turn.  Oh, well. 
Guess I'll just have to resort to Chunking and Winding again to catch 
those bigguns!

Have A Great Day!
JIMMY  D
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Jimmy D. Moore - Scout Exec. BSA (Ret.), TOWA, TF&G Contributor, GRTU Past VP. 
Past Pres. McGregor Rotary.  Freelance Outdoor writer, humorist and half-assed 
Texan.
Author - "MOON HOLLER MISFITS Fishing & Hunting Club", �  
http://home.earthlink.net/~rayado/rayadoflyfishingflypatternstips/index.html

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"Being able to read trout streams is just as valuable to a fly fisherman as the 
ability to read a defense is to an NFL Quarterback."
Jimmy D. Moore - � [2004]
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