It wasn't quite that many, but there was a report that a pretty good morning bite went down. Good enough that if it was the first one during October I would be using a lot of exclamation points. This is what it is. You are not allowed to escape just yet! And with a generally mild and benign ten day forecast it looks like winter is in no rush to begin. We had a couple chilly nights, but the cold weather hasn't really taken hold yet.
When the alarm went off this morning at 04:30 I woke up with the motivation to fish, but then a greater motivation took over after I opened the sliding glass door and felt a dank south wind. Sleep. See, I'm still motivated, it's just that my motivation was elsewhere today in staying comfortable and being well rested. That's a change for me, because before I would charge out there into anything, all the time, but I have since refined and realized it is smarter to balance my fishing addiction into- not on top of- my other addictions.
I think I'll sleep again tomorrow, with my next openings for Friday morning, possibly Friday evening, and Saturday morning. When I deprive myself of it for a few days and do other things, it's like a pressure valve building up, so that when I get back there it feels really f***ing good. The good news is there is still a chance to score a couple more nice sessions.
