It’s great looking out of my office window at the beautiful sun shining and the river is fairly calm. Can’t believe that the temperature outside is in the high teens and t-shirt time again - yet its November here in the Kawarthas! Who would believe that we had a bundle of snow a couple of weeks ago, and another large of my willow tree broke off and fell down because of the weight of the snow.

It sure would be nice to get out the old canoe and paddle a while before the sun starts getting lower in the horizon and we are in darkness again.

The clocks went back last weekend so by the time 5 p.m. arrives daylight is failing fast.

So whats there to talk about - fishing related - if I can’t get out there and fish because of the time of the year and the season is over for me?

As I often tell my gf when thinking her - I see you in my memory banks - so perhaps that’s what I’ll have to do with fishing in the Kawarthas too.

So next post maybe will be from the memory banks or not.

Better still why not think of a nice hot place and that will dispel the thought of the next season heading our way.

I read that Moon Phases may have an effect on Bass.  Do you know anything about this?  Professional Guide Richie White took the Texas top 50 bass and after looking up the moon phase for each date, he noted some interesting statistics. With at least 75% illumination, 23 of the top 50 were caught.  This means they were close to a full moon.  And then only a quarter of the time is was 75% or more illumination. So almost half of the top 50 bass in Texas were caught in a fourth of the time. Richie White wonders if that could be a coincidence? Further analysis with his personal top 50 yielded similar results. 21 of his top 50 were caught with at least 75% moon.

So warm thoughts of Texas, go with my warm thoughts of high teens in the Kawarthas, and all of this is to to do with bass fishing too.