WINTER FISHING
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Seasonal
Affective Disorder
Maryland
1/27/08
Mark Burchick
SEASONAL AFFECTIVE
DISORDER
- The Ice is 3"
Thick -
We are in the dregs
of winter.The next six
weeks, statistically
suck.The mean high
and low temperatures
for January are 43
and 25, gaining a
whole two degrees in
February for a high
of 45 and low of 24.
But something
magic happens in
March with a
mean high of 53
and a low of 31,
breaking to a
mean low above
freezing by
mid-march.The first
day of daylight
savings time is
Sunday, March 9,
2008.By mid
March fish begin
to shake off
lethargy and
start thinking
of pre-spawn.You can
see the bud
swell and red
color highlights
in red maple and
day length gets
observably
longer, reigning
in the first day
of spring on
March 20.
I think many
people during
this spell of
time fall victim
to Cabin Fever.I've been
to the fishing
and boating
shows, read
through every
page of my bass
angler
and vegetable
seed catalogs
and the tractor
is in the shop
for spring
cleaning.
I've
recently gone
from beer to
hard liquor,
which is part of
the whole
seasonal
affective
disorder (SAD)
thing.Six weeks
to go, we are
all in this
thing together,
and I'm pulling
for you!
