It keeps getting colder
Every morning I get out of bed, and the hardwood floors feel a little bit colder. I can deny it as much as I want but the floors don’t lie. Winter is coming! The Starks would be happy. I’m sure as hell not. Winter and I don’t mix. I tried to enjoy snowboarding enough to make winter just a little bit fun. It didn’t work. The bitter cold, snowstorms, and brutal winds make anything outdoors it’s own form of torture. So begins the countdown till spring. For those of you that visit my website hoping for a new post on fishing. Winter is like the break before your favourite television show’s final Season. You wait patiently in anticipation of what will happen next. Will it be what everyone expects, or some crazy twist? Of course they could ruin everything you’ve watched by totally screwing up the ending like they did in Lost. During the off season you don’t just sit alone in your basement and wait. You fill the void that’s left with whatever substitute you can find.
. Did I mention that I fell through the ice of the pond behind my house as a child? Well I did. Twice actually. All I can remember is how brutally cold it was. Especially when the legs of my jeans froze solid and stuck to my thighs. I wasn’t afraid I’d drown. The Pond wasn’t that deep where I went through. The walk back to the house in the freezing cold could have probably killed me though. Now I imagine falling through the ice while fishing out on the middle of some lake. If I didn’t drown I’d probably die from setting myself on fire.
The sad reality
Now here’s the Kicker. I don’t want to leave everyone hanging until spring. Sure I’ll probably take at least one fishing trip, and definitely go to the Toronto Sportsman show. That will provide me with a few things to write about, but it’s far from enough. So maybe, just maybe mind you. Purely for those of you that are dedicated to my Fishing posts, and because it could be the most brutally entertaining video I end up posting on YouTube. I might actually go Ice Fishing this winter for the very first time. If I go please wish me luck. If I don’t return? When people ask about me. Tell them that I was the kind of guy that would risk it all to make everyone else’s life just a little bit better.