Are You Ready?

[skeetbum]

Getting around the country like I do I tend to notice subtle changes in the seasons. One of the reasons my Queen and I live here is for the seasons and the beauty in the changes of them. Just this past week I passed the first cold changed Maple tree of the upcoming fall season, the first hint of the most favorite season of the year for me. Saw a bachelor group of mature whitetail still in velvet while coming South on Friday, 2 of them are going to make someone very happy. Deer stands pass me on trailers going to the hunting grounds. Corn is being put in the silos and the Deer are more visible. Beans are turning brown waiting for their turn. Snow has already fallen west and north of me, I've been told. The water temps are trying to sneak into the lower 80's, maybe less by now. Turnover will be here before I know it with the couple of weeks of crummy fishing that comes with it, but then I get a very big smile for the rest of the cold season as the crappie go to their deeper places. Deep jigging is a favorite of mine even though I might not get the numbers this past summer has given trolling. The thump with a heavy jig is just great. Traffic on the water slowly thins to just the fishermen, lake lice gone til the water warms many months from now. The Thermos is a standard when we leave the house and you better eat your biscuit on the way to the lake or you might not like the taste quite as much. Zipping down the lake slows down also unless the face is covered. Fall being my favorite of the seasons is kind of like getting an early Christmas gift. I hope everyone is ready and looking forward to it as much as I do, gonna be hard to concentrate for me. God Bless you all as you prepare for the fun around the corner, maybe I'll see you there.......Skeet.