WV Trout Stockings Jan. 11-15, 2016

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West Virginia trout stocking the week of Jan. 11-15, 2016

ELKINS, W.Va. – The following waters were stocked the week of Jan. 11-15, 2016

Chief Cornstalk Lake Middle Wheeling Creek (C&R)

Rollins Lake South Branch (Franklin)

Tomlinson Run Lake Turkey Run Lake

West Virginia Trout Stockings- January 2016

West Virginia trout stocking the week of Jan. 4-8, 2016

ELKINS, W.Va. – The following waters were stocked the week of Jan. 4-8, 2016:

Anthony Creek                     Blackwater River Bullskin Run Cacapon Park Lake Cedar Creek Lake Chief Logan Lake Cranberry River Curtisville Lake East Fork Greenbrier River Elk River Evitts Run Fitzpatrick Lake Gandy Creek Glady Fork Huey Lake James P. Bailey Lake Knapps Creek

Krodel Lake Larenim Park Lake Laurel Fork (Randolph) Laurel Fork Lake Lick Creek Pond Little Beaver Lake Little River East Fork Greenbrier River Little River West Fork Greenbrier River Lost River Middle Creek (Berkeley) Miletree Lake Mill Creek (Berkeley) Mountwood Park Lake New Creek North Fork of Patterson Creek North Fork of South Branch (C&R) North Fork South Branch

Opequon Creek Pennsboro Reservoir Rocky Marsh Run Shavers Fork (Bemis section) Shavers Fork (lower section) Shavers Fork (upper section) Shavers Fork C&R (Stuarts Park Recreation Area) South Branch (Smoke Hole) Spruce Knob Lake Summit Lake Tracy Lake Trout Run Waites Run Watoga Lake Wayne Dam West Fork Greenbrier River Williams River

MORE OF THE SAME?

MORE OF THE SAME?

I have to admit that 2015 was a pretty good year. I bet you didn’t expect that to come from me. Yes, we have made it through another one. What lies ahead? Who knows?  I pulled my carrots during the first week of December when I mulched my garlic. That isn’t something that happens very often. I had to buy a new freezer before deer season was a third over. That was nice. The freezer was full, the cellar, too. That makes a pretty good year in my book. I never got mad, never got injured and there wasn’t much turmoil. One can’t ask for much more than that.

I just hope we can enjoy a short, mild winter. We deserve one; after the past few. Winter could lose steam and be pretty much over by mid-February that would suit me just fine. I would love to actually be tempted to buy my Trout Stamp before the end of April. One can only hope. I used to catch a lot of trout between the first of the year and the middle of March; when I headed south for turkeys. That seems like eons away, now. I really do not think I have gone fishing before April during the last fifteen years. It has usually been well into late April, too. It always seems as if when I have had the time; the roads are treacherous and the water is frozen over or it is flooding. There is seemingly never any in between time.

I never have minded a little occasional snow or a couple of big storms. The thing that always gets be down is the lingering ones. Looking at that white stuff from Thanksgiving until the mid-April gets real old and it does so very quickly. The getting old stuff usually kicks in at some point in mid-January. There sure isn’t much of interest during that time; for me. The search for Golden Eagles and different ducks is about all there is to do. I was privileged to see a Snowy Owl last year in Taylor County. That was a lifetime experience that was totally unexpected. Therefore; I now realize that good things are possible during the first month of the year.

I imagine I will spend a good deal of time this month reloading ammunition.  I had all of my equipment laying in storage for about thirty years. I can honestly say that after taking up making my own ammo; that I will never shoot another factory load. Ammo is just like food: It is a lot better when you actually know what is in it and where it came from. I believe the venison starts accumulating when you know what is going to happen when the trigger is squeezed. I have had a few bad experiences over the years with store bought shells. I never will again.

There just isn’t much to discuss here; after all it is January and we aren’t in Florida. By the way; if you are reading this on the 1^st, I am sitting here eating trout, ramps & cornbread. It doesn’t get much better than that at this time of the year. More of the same; I hope so, as long as it is all getting better.

HAPPY 2016!!

This is my January 2016 article for Two-Lane Livin

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