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Fall’s ‘In-Between’ Fish
Jigging Deep Weed Lines for Late-Fall Pike
Fall Drop-Shotting for Slab Crappies
For the Best Selection Make Your Big Purchases Now
With ice fishing season just around the corner, hardwater anglers are gearing up with high-ticket purchases. Here are a few for your consideration.
Lowrance Active Target Explorer Series Pack
Vexilar Fish-Scout 800 IR
StrikeMaster Lithium 40V Lite Ice Auger
Humminbird Ice Helix 9
My Favorite Bloody Mary Mix
Pulling Your Boat for Winter Storage?
Fall is My Favorite Season
I wish every season was fall. The beauty of the fall colors across this great land stirs my soul. Cooler temperatures give me new energy for all the outdoor things I try to do during the fall season.
Canoeing or kayaking a fall river through a tunnel of colorful trees is a special treat. Fall also finds me in a treestand waiting for a deer to come by my secret hiding place. If they do that’s the bonus. Just being out there is what’s really important to me.
Fish will be feeding heavily storing up for the winter months. There is no better time to catch fish especially with a fly rod alone on a river. It’s time for dove and teal that help get me ready for the waterfowl season to come. Then there’s fall camping and hiking, hunting for fall mushrooms and capturing the beauty of fall with my camera. I almost forgot about fall turkey hunting. My list goes on and on. I need fall to be at least 6 months long!
—Larry Whitely
Never Burn Poison Ivy
Removing poison ivy plants from your property is a good thing, but burning the leaves and vines is a very bad idea. The plant’s irritating oil, urushiol, will be released by burning and can be carried by the smoke. Humans that breathe the smoke can develop serious lung and breathing problems. The urushiol-laced smoke can also be a severe eye irritant.
Indian Summer
Some meteorologists refer to Indian summer as a “weather singularity”—a specific set of characteristics that include warm and calm skies, reasonably warm temperatures and all-around wonderful post summer/pre-winter weather. Truth is, for it to be Indian summer in the popular definition of the term, that period of wonderful weather has to come after a hard, killing frost to truly be an Indian summer.
The origin of the phrase is shrouded in vagueness and ambiguity. Most credit the reference to the mid fall hunting/harvest practices of Native Americans as coined by early settlers. Other, less gracious associations are also offered up as how the name came about, but all agree that whatever the origin, the definition remains the same—a brief stretch of wondrously nice weather after the first “killing” frost.
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