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Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:26 pm
by HillbillyGeek
How do I know, you ask... 
1. Our grass is growing. Mrs. Geek & I did our spring cleanup today (rake & mow). I'll be spreading lime & fertilizer in a couple of weeks.
2. There was a dead salamander by the side of the road by our house. They are not around during the winter.
3. A few nights ago I heard a lone frog doing the "hey baby" mating call.
4. Coyote activity at night is on the rise, which means there's more food available. It's fun to listen to them locate each other with yips & howls.
Does anyone have water temperature data that they would share? Smaller lakes will be warming up quickly in the next couple of weeks if we keep having sunny days.
I can't wait for the fish to start biting! I've been out of commission since August 15th because of shoulder surgery. Missing humpy season was a major bummer! 
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:30 pm
by fish4brains
HillbillyGeek wrote:
! I've been out of commission since August 15th because of shoulder surgery. Missing humpy season was a major bummer!
Humpy season for me is year around, no bum shoulder would keep me from humpy.
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:28 pm
by panfisher
yep! the peepers have been waking me up (they are under my house) the dew worms have been popping up, the willow trees have started to start budding, and my arm keeps doing doing a twitch that resembles casting. just hope we don't get a fast thaw. <')//<
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:38 pm
by A9
HillbillyGeek wrote:How do I know, you ask...
1. Our grass is growing. Mrs. Geek & I did our spring cleanup today (rake & mow). I'll be spreading lime & fertilizer in a couple of weeks.
2. There was a dead salamander by the side of the road by our house. They are not around during the winter.
3. A few nights ago I heard a lone frog doing the "hey baby" mating call.
4. Coyote activity at night is on the rise, which means there's more food available. It's fun to listen to them locate each other with yips & howls.
Does anyone have water temperature data that they would share? Smaller lakes will be warming up quickly in the next couple of weeks if we keep having sunny days.
I can't wait for the fish to start biting! I've been out of commission since August 15th because of shoulder surgery. Missing humpy season was a major bummer!
I'd be more distraught over missing coho's in the fall then humpies...
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:04 pm
by AdsBot [Google]
The warming trend will be halted by Wednesday as a more zonal flow becomes predominant over the Pacific. Long-range forecasts call for highs again in low 40's and lows in the low--mid 30's depending on locale. Winter isn't over yet!!
Check it out:
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/ ... 021712///3
But, you never know with the weather! Cross our fingers and hope this warm-up keeps going and going, even if we have to settle with some precip. I must get out to some cutthroat soon!
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:27 pm
by panfisher
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:35 am
by iPodrodder
25 overnight here...burned off real quick though.
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:49 am
by Marc Martyn
HillbillyGeek wrote:How do I know, you ask...
1. Our grass is growing. Mrs. Geek & I did our spring cleanup today (rake & mow). I'll be spreading lime & fertilizer in a couple of weeks.
Hillbilly, you really know how to hurt a guy#-o There still is 15" of undisturbed snow in my back yard and the lakes are covered with ice. The only thing keeping me sane is tying flies in my office and not looking outside.:pale:
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:09 am
by Derrick-k
It will be nice to not have to wake up and scrape windshields in the mourning.
I'm still in winter steelhead mode, native should be peaking soon...
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:30 am
by A9
Spring is here in CA! Been mid 60's for the past week, unfortunately it's cooling off to around 60 for the rest of the week, but I can't wait to be home in the Seattle weather...
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:33 am
by 2000subaru
Lake Tapps was 38-39 degrees. Not too spring like, but absolutely beautiful yesterday. Blue skies and t-shirt weather on the water. I was told Washington was around 46.
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:47 am
by YellowBear
Signs of spring are showing up in the Basin, we saw our first Rockchuck 2 weeks ago and the Killdeers showed up in the yard last Friday. Won't be long now!
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:20 am
by zen leecher aka Bill W
2000subaru wrote:Lake Tapps was 38-39 degrees. Not too spring like, but absolutely beautiful yesterday. Blue skies and t-shirt weather on the water. I was told Washington was around 46.
If Washington is 46 then lots of fishermen have been peeing off their boats.
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:11 am
by AdsBot [Google]
zen leecher aka Bill W wrote:2000subaru wrote:Lake Tapps was 38-39 degrees. Not too spring like, but absolutely beautiful yesterday. Blue skies and t-shirt weather on the water. I was told Washington was around 46.
If Washington is 46 then lots of fishermen have been peeing off their boats.
Haha! Exactly. Washington should be more around 42.8-44.5F.
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:08 pm
by 2000subaru
zen leecher aka Bill W wrote:2000subaru wrote:Lake Tapps was 38-39 degrees. Not too spring like, but absolutely beautiful yesterday. Blue skies and t-shirt weather on the water. I was told Washington was around 46.
If Washington is 46 then lots of fishermen have been peeing off their boats.
Well Bill, now that you mention it, Dibeert was trying to pee on my transducer to get a temp reading....
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:56 pm
by VooDuuChild
Speakin of Cassidy, did that toxic algae bloom ever die off? If it hasn't, I wouldn't expect anything but slime outta there this spring and summer. It can hurt the fish too as it eats up mass amounts of oxygen from the water.
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:59 pm
by AdsBot [Google]
Low and behold now the forecast is still on track for turning stormier next week, just looks like it's going to hold off until quite awhile here. In fact, temps long range now look to be in the upper 40's vs. the low 40's and lows holding in the upper 30's to low 40's. It seems like Spring is taunting us with such a nice streak of weather, but when it does turn cooler, we will be north of the storm track which puts us in colder air highs 43-49F with a chance of rain broadbrushing the extended. Can't really say any one time will be an extended dry streak, at least we got these last four days of amazing weather to get out and have a good time. FYI for those in California it's gunna turn rainier and cooler!!
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:07 pm
by HillbillyGeek
VooDuuChild wrote:Speakin of Cassidy, did that toxic algae bloom ever die off? If it hasn't, I wouldn't expect anything but slime outta there this spring and summer. It can hurt the fish too as it eats up mass amounts of oxygen from the water.
I wasn't aware that there was a "toxic algae bloom". The water at Cassidy is always stained, but that doesn't hurt the fish. It does, however, make necessary to put lures right in front of their noses or they won't see it.
RE:Spring is just around the corner!
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:55 pm
by gpc
Spring is getting really close. Today I went to the store with shorts and a T shirt. I was in the coulee area last weekend and exactly a month before that, its like night and day. There was at least a foot of snow last month and its all pretty much turned to mud now. We also heard a frog and saw some sort of bugs landing on the water.
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