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Last of fallAh fall, we hardly got to know you.

Actually I really do miss fall. It seems like the heat from summer over stayed its welcome well into September. It took much of October for the waters to begin to cool.

Then the winds and the rains started playing havoc with planned fishing trips. Everytime we turned around, there was a front coming through the area.

Fortunately we just started fishing closer to home. We could watch the fronts come through, and if there any serious storms or winds, we could be back at the dock in five minutes.

While that helped, it certainly did not give us a lot of time for fishing. Then this cold weather showed up. First it dropped to the low sixties, and for the last couple of days the temperatures have struggled to get out of the forties.

I am no fair weather fisherman, but I would like to keep from freezing my rear to the seats on the boat.

Actually I have gone from suspecting that this is winter to confirming that this has to be winter.

In less than a month I have gone from being very optimistic about November fishing to becoming resigned that this is not going to be the fall season that I had hoped.

We caught some nice fish this fall, it just wasn't the great season I wanted it to be.

The good news is that we might still get in some good days, and if we don't, there is always next year.