jim wrote:Sure, but if you want some good photos (not mine) check out this photo gallery. This is my home away from home. The streams are typically sidewalk to driveway width, gin clear, and run cold in the summer and warm in the winter due to being spring fed. Most fish are wild, no stocking necessary.
jim wrote:Sure, but if you want some good photos (not mine) check out this photo gallery. This is my home away from home. The streams are typically sidewalk to driveway width, gin clear, and run cold in the summer and warm in the winter due to being spring fed. Most fish are wild, no stocking necessary.
That is an idyllic picture.
Over 700 miles of streams just like that in a 3 county region. I usually take a beer with me and when the day is done I'll slip out of my waders, break down the rod, and just sit and watch the sun set over the hills. Given the choice of fishing only one place the rest of my life, Montana or SW Wisco I would pick the latter in a heartbeat.
Read this book and you will be booking your trip. The author lives in Washington state now, but spent his youth poking around the hills of SW Wisconsin and describes it better than I ever have heard anyone do so. He also does a very good job of giving a geology lesson, the driftless area of Wisconsin is one of the most unique and interesting geological areas in the world.
Fat Strat wrote:Yeah, it's gorgeous here this time of year. 90 today, but I've been golfing weekly in 75 degree temps.
I'm officially not jealous of you for the next three months.
Tulsa gets pretty rough by June or so. Not quite as bad as STL but still pretty bad.
Thrill: Now that I have lived here a year and a half or so I am completely used to it. It has to hit 105 to 110 to even begin to bother me without the humidity present. The only time it really sucks is when you are in your car and you have to have the AC on high all the time.
Fat Strat wrote:Yeah, it's gorgeous here this time of year. 90 today, but I've been golfing weekly in 75 degree temps.
I'm officially not jealous of you for the next three months.
Tulsa gets pretty rough by June or so. Not quite as bad as STL but still pretty bad.
Thrill: Now that I have lived here a year and a half or so I am completely used to it. It has to hit 105 to 110 to even begin to bother me without the humidity present. The only time it really sucks is when you are in your car and you have to have the AC on high all the time.
Heh, yeah I'm just trying to let them feel better about the bragging I did in the winter. It's really not too bad. A little oppressive after a while and then you just head for the mountains.
Arizona State dropped wrestling last week, which led to this comment on Wrestling Report (someone else not me):
"Truly sad. I taught at ASU in 1988-89, when ASU had a strong team. One thing I have to comment on, however, is that various places have described ASU as a fine academic institution. Though that is correct for the grad programs (many of which are outstanding), the undergraduate population was not great. But alas, the woman were knock-out gorgeous, and since it was usually over 80 degrees, they wore next to nothing. Walking around campus was a joy (but hazardous to one's neck). You have to accept the positives and the negatives in this world."
ghostrunner wrote:I've lived in NC, SC, and Austin, Texas.
For me, St. Louis in July is worse than any of those.
Dalls in July is downright awful....I thought I read somewhere that Houston has the highest humidity of any US city? I imagine it would be worse than STL in July-August.
Surprisingly, I don't think ATL gets as oppressively humid as STL in the summer. Don't get me wrong, it certainly is warm/humid, but it's pretty rare to hit upper 90s or 100 here. As I recall, STL can hit that quite regularly??? Anyway, we have a nice pool in our subdivision, so I don't care how hot/humid it gets!
