Monday Morning and …

Who Let the Cat Out?

So far, so good. While I always overestimate my video and writing reach, in times like this the lower readership and few eyeballs-on maybe, just may be a blessing in disguise.

In case you actually got away from the digital world after work last Friday, and turned off and tuned out, here’s what happened.

I “liter lly” as the mainstream media likes to say, fumbled my way into a new Friday Night Live episode on the Texas Fly Caster YouTube Channel. It began by not being able to figure out HOW TO go live on the Channel, proceeded with me spilling water, yes water, all over myself once live … and at this point – going off the deep end into temperature change – and what it may, and I now emphasize MAY be doing to the Lake Ray Roberts fly fishing action I have come to know and love. That Ray Roberts is my backyard pond does elevate it to love, and then that also makes it susceptible to hate. You know, the LOVE-HATE relationships we form over time?

On Being Wrong

Now that I have raised, my head still down, the climate flag from my foxhole … I wait for shots fired, but so far all is quiet on this front, and I will refer back to paragraph one. Either no one is viewing, or no one cares, or everyone realizes there’s next to nothing we can do about it. That is about the best I can come up with right now. A peaceful reminder; I am not placing any responsibility on any political hot button issue. I am simply reporting experiences and numerical facts. I will not be tap dancing through that minefield.

I was extremely reassured in my “climate flag raising” when, just on happenstance, I watched and listened through a new YouTube video by LOOP. And in this video at the 07:51 they address – straight forward – the heat in Montana and disappearing hatches on the Blackfoot. You can see the two guides basically (inwardly) question their existence, as the level of difficulty increases year-over-year. I feel their pain. “Something’s not right …” is what I walked away with, and it troubles me, but reassures as well.

As I repeat though, I like being proven wrong! If you are having the best season of your life, on LAKE RAY ROBERTS, let’s hear about it! So far, if anyone is doing much good carp fly fishing, they’re felling trees in a forest where no one else is, or bothers to be. The big lead is – I even try to prove MYSELF wrong. That’s why I still GO and DO this Lake. But, so far, for two seasons now? I only have more evidence to back the climate claim.

In tomorrow’s post, “Fire and Rain,” I continue to throw fuel on the LOCAL climate change fire I started last week. We’ll see if it catches …