Copyright 1989 Bill Clede. First published in Salt Water Sportsman, Feb. 1989. There comes a time in every angler's life when the walls show scratches of escape attempts.
Cabin fever reaches a climax.
Man just wasn't meant to be a hibernating animal. But the last of the stripers have moved south for the winter and the harbingers of spring are a month or more away. Then one dead of winter day dawns sunny, bright and mild. We're on the warm side of a front that has drawn a gentle flow of tropical air up from the southwest. By comparison, it's an outdoor day.