It Is Real

Climate change is one of the most talked about subjects that we seeing and hearing now, is it real or not? I'll give a few examples of how real it is. Last week in the morning when we came hoem from our dog walking there were "2" smaller bullfrogs out of the water on the edges of our gold fish pond looking for some sun and bugs to eat, they were black from being under the water in the bottom muck but they were out and about! The next day we were walking the dogs in the early afternoon in the cemetary and in the field were 6-8 vultures feeding on some thing, in a normal year we do not see them until late Feb. or early March and then it is the smaller black vultures who come back first. I also notice a large amount of black midges on the garage doors and a couple of little black stomeflies. Last Thursday we were out in the yard and heard a large flock of geese flying from the Sunbury resivor going West until they were overhead they turned North BUT these were Snow Geese and not the resident canada geese that stay here all winter. My friends we are seeing signs all around us telling us that our world is changing, want to help? The one thing you can do it find areas that need to have trees growing in them and plant some, it will help ever so little but at least your doing something. We all know to well what happens when June rolls around and the rain shuts off and Penn's just gets too warm to fish that lack of decent rain really hurts our resident trout population. Have you also noticed that we have a real lack of the "white flies" on the river in August below the dam in Sunbury, it used to be so large that you could see them on the bridge on both ends just piled up like snow but not any more, what happened to them? We are also seeing the Trico hatch on Spring Creek not as strong as it was a few years ago, yes we see some areas that have good populations but they are not as steady as they once were. Some of us old guys now realize that we have lived in a truly golden age of trout fishing, good water, great hatches and kind considerate people on the stream. It is really hard to find a place where your alone with pure nature and good fishing without some dam ass hole stomping along the bank and saying something stupid or the guy who has no manners and steps in just above or below you and never asked which way your going! By the way the midges are going on strong on both Spring and Fishing Creek's but we have been having a few days of high water due to the rain and not snow we have been getting.