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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Climate Clutch

For the record, I can't resist the temptation to report on the weather, as the words will remain on this blog to come back to in the future, perhaps. Jorge and I met in the dark Saturday morning, among Zach Merchant's very first customers, going through the door to Round Valley Bait and Tackle as it opened for the first time at 6:00 a.m., and walking back out into a temperature of 60-something. The sun came up and it was very warm. When we left Van Syckel's Road at 9:30 a.m., temperature could have been 75.

The next day, afternoon temperature was 40 at most, a stiff humid wind making the weather raw as a bad clam. Then, the next day, pleasant 60's, but I would be surprised if it hit 48 today, and it's chillier yet out there as I write now. I heard at work that Newark got three-and-a-half inches of rain the other night and morning. I drove by the North Branch on the way to that job, river having risen to the top of the bank.

Tomorrow's my day off. Trout fishing with Noel in the morning is out. Water is too high, and besides, I will fish trout at 30 degrees, but preferably, I will do that in January. I haven't checked the forecast recently. If there's sun and afternoon temperatures in the 50's, I may go try largemouths at Bedminster Pond. It's going on May and buds have barely opened, so if I catch a good one again, the photo will appear as though I fished very early in the season. And I guess that's almost what it is as yet, nearly a full month into official springtime.

I remember 2012. Amazed at water lilies up on Lake Carnegie late in March. All the trees that faint green you associate with late April in New Jersey. Days and weeks in the 70's and 80's.

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