Our Outdoors: A touch of spring
February 28, 2022

Simonson Photo
Spring Fling. The author caught this very light colored white crappie on an open water outing as temperatures allowed for time on a nearby power plant lake.
The wakeup temperature on Saturday morning was seven above. Slackjawed, I stared at the readout in the upper right corner of my watch and laughed. I thought no way was that single digit reading ever going to reach the 48 degrees promised on the far side of the curve as I stepped into the garage and wistfully looked over my puddle jumper parked in my truck's usual spot to defrost. The dogs whine...
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