Holy Crap.

Oswego County, NY, where we fished the Salmon River just a few weeks ago, is now buried under between FIVE and NINE FEET of snow! I talked with someone from Whitakers (photo on the left is from their site, that's the Salmon River), where we stay when we go there, and he said they're expecting snow all weekend. We're heading back in early March and much of this snow will certainly still be there. He said a snow like this will probably last well into April. Crazy.


Stay safe up there, everyone.

Shopping for Weather

Anyone who has ever really looked forward to something, whether it's out of town or not, has probably done what I did this morning. A friend and I are going steelhead fishing in upstate New York this Saturday, we're taking a guide and this is our first time steelheading. A greatly anticipated outing. So this morning I checked the weather online for Saturday in Pulaski, NY.

35 and 'rather cloudy.' Sounds pretty good, really. But it could be better. So I do the logical thing and check another weather site. This one had similar temps but included chance of rain (not a bad thing) and freezing rain (a bad thing). So I did what you have to do if you want to control future weather conditions at a distant location: I checked yet a third site. Now we're talking! 43 degrees with showers. Sounds like steelheading weather to me! But with so many conflicting forecasts, can I really trust it? I felt like a gambler in a casino as I let it ride and rolled the dice again: Another 43 with showers!

Not only did I shop around for the forecast I wanted, but I found it twice. How can I be anything short of confident that conditions will be favorable for fishing this Saturday?