Even when you can...maybe you shouldn't

We all love to fish.  I'd say most of us would say that we don't get to do it enough...myself being the ring leader of that crowd.  But what if you can, but you shouldn't?

Here is our problem.

It is the first weekend in September, and a three day weekend at that, however, we haven't seen rain in maybe a month or close to it so the water levels have dropped.  The temperature of these waters has, at the same time, risen substancially.  When you face those kind of conditions as a trout fisherman, you have one big moral delima on your hands.

You COULD go fishing.  You PROBABLY would catch some trout.  You WOULD put undo stress on the fish and the chance they wouldn't survive is pretty great.

So...

I have a three day weekend, have not fished in a while...and it will be a while more.

I just don't like being a hinderance to a sport I truly love and a fish that makes it all worthwhile.

Got one heckuva trip coming up soon though...

Now, for some odds-n-ends...

The last video is by Shawn Madison who, if he is fishing, odds are he's on the Clinch.