Help with a dig pattern.

[SwampDonkey]

Set up by the tripod out by the main trail and try for a hole in the pond with a 1 wood.

[Jeff]

We are supposed to get two days of rain. How much? Dunno, but my Sister is on her way to stay for a few days, and it would be exciting to see the ponds start to meet, but it's a bummer it's raining while she is here. 

[doc henderson]

more time for coffee and conversation.

[SwampDonkey]

Been getting that rain here, had an 1" this morning. A little break now, but more coming. With this sinus infection I ain't working in no rain.

With your buggy and canopy, a little drive near by the ponds will satisfy curiosity. Might be more like spring mud'n though, to move any distance in that greasy clay.

[Jeff]

I decided to try and move some minnows from one side of the pond to the other to get some going in there.

I Just Caught 25 Bullhead Catfish in ONE CAST! - YouTube

[ljohnsaw]

I think you caught minnows the first go round but the bullheads got in there and ate them all up!

[SwampDonkey]

We have catfish up this way, but I have only seen one my whole life. I caught that in a deep pool of water on a big bend in the river (Dungarvin R.). It has a very dark water, like dark coffee, coming out of the spruce bogs. It's funny how salmon and trout can live in crystal clear water and also that dark water. To me it is like living and breathing clean air versus smoky air. I'd prefer the clean air.

[Jeff]

Pond update. This is the dryest summer and fall I can remember. The big lakes are down feet, but my pond expansion has not once lost water but it sure has struggled to gain. The guage registers about 4' 2"  now,  still gaining about 4" for every 1" of rain. I'm hoping that all changes this next couple days as we have out first really rainy forecast.  The weather man even used the word torrential last night. Probably just to torment me as it once again splits and goes by.

Here is hoping Mother Nature gives me a big wet one the next few days!


 

 

[gspren]

  If I wasn't so busy I'd plan a "Tent" camping trip on your property, that never fails to bring on a good rainy week.

[chet]

We got some presip showin' up in our forecast too. but it's white   

[chet]

never mind, they changed our forecast AGAIN.

[Jeff]

Well the first half of the torrent was .08. Broken blues up there now.

[Peter Drouin]

Like to send you some NH rain. My log yard never dried up this summer.

What color is the water going to be when the two get together?
Purple??

[Jeff]

Greenish greenish blue. Id suspect it'll be pretty diluted by the time it fills,

[Jeff]

An inch of rain, 4" of pond. I like it! It takes a lot more water everytime, to go up 4" now. It isstarting to look bigger now. Durn! The sun is out! Who says that?? 



 

 

 

[CCCLLC]

That really  is looking good.  Great job.

[thecfarm]

Peter will send NH rain.
Ray will send ME rain!!!!! 
Been a bad year for rain.
If it don't let up, we will have 10 feet of snow by Feb.   

[SwampDonkey]

In winter 2007-2008 we did have 12' up here. Of course not in ground depth, just what fell from the sky. One of the snowiest winters on record in the area. Funny thing was, winter before was next to no snow.

Was still 4' depth the first week of April in the back yard for the robins to bob on. And that was not a plow snow bank.

[aigheadish]

If it's any consolation in the 7 years I've been at my place my pond has never been dryer than this year. It is holding maybe a puddle but even that I think is gone now. It looks terrible.

[Jeff]

The road, she narrows!