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I keep a pretty close eye on the Hocking River USGS gauge for fishing. Last year was the worst year for low water levels that I recall from the past 20ish years. That's not precise science, just my recollection. What is really weird to me is that we typically would see good fishing levels on the...

It was spitting snow in Athens this morning for a few minutes. And I think it's supposed to be colder tonight. 🥶

I lived for a little over 3 years on Harmony Rd just outside Athens. I do not miss eyeing flood gauges every time the river came up. A few times that it got really bad we had to park all the way out by 32 and hoof it thru the woods between the cabin and where we could park. Miserable.

The wind was freaky weird at our place near Athens. Tornado warning on my phone woke us up around 3AM. I'm not sure what app my wife was using (it was 3AM, I wasn't functioning 100%) but it said a tornado had touched in Wellston, then another near Albany. That was tracking right at us. We got...

All of you Lake Erie people, know in the nicest of ways how much I hate you all. :LOL: I'm just insanely jealous of all of the opportunities you have in your back yard.

This was a really fun and effective streamer on smallies last year. Fish it on a sink tip line and the wedge head makes it dart and dive down. The Poliwog tail gives it a lot of wiggle. Something I do to minimize fouling on the tail is feed it through a chunk of body tubing, then tie that down...

Some recent stuffs off the vise.

I took advantage of the week off last week to do some live animal testing of a few new fly patterns I've been developing. The warmth in the air, the clean flowing river, and the willing biters were all great...but the water levels in SE Ohio are a little scary. Referencing a USGS gauge, after a...

The little guy kept asking about gloves since I did this project. As a surprise for him, I found a used Wilson A500 on eBay and grabbed it for him. I gave it a thorough cleaning and conditioning with the Ball Players Balm. No relace needed on his glove. We played catch last night before...

They're a quality glove, and that's why I waited (I'm not that patient, normally) for a decent deal to pop up on eBay. Most used ones were going for at least $90-100, so when this one showed up for $40 I felt like a bargain could be had. Luckily, the pics of the glove were good enough you could...

It's dangerous, my friend. You watch enough of those restorations and you start to believe...

Gosh, this brings back memories. My dad was a PSYCHO for this thing. No BS, he built an exact copy of the track in our basement to test cars. He'd take the cars to work and use a special scale to get the weight 100% exact to the maximum...then we'd go to the derby and dudes with kindergarten...

My son and I have watched a ton of videos online of baseball glove restorations. I had seen enough to convince myself it was do-able for me. I was looking for a winter project of some sort, and started watching ebay for deals. I finally found what I was looking for, a used and abused Wilson...

As displeased as Saban seemed to be by this new NIL landscape in college football, I can't imagine him jumping right back into it.

Big kitty in Athens.