By this time each year, I
have been thinking of white bass for a couple weeks, and may have even ventured
out to see if they’ve arrived. I then report back to you all. In that spirit, I offer the Culvert’s first
white bass post of the season. But
that’s sort of where it all goes south.
The problem is two-fold. First,
we’ve a fair bit of rain and worse yet, the timing has been awful. As soon as the streams are 24 hours from
wadeable, we get another rain. Second, I
just got a vasectomy. I feel fine (thanks
for asking), but Doc says I should take it easy today and tomorrow….yep, you
guessed it: more rain.
According to DMOZ, some sort
of website that is useful but not very amusing, the Angler’s Culvert is a
website that covers “Fly angling topics ranging from the useful to something
less useful, but always amusing.” I’ve
said I all have to say about white bass for today, but according to the
informational video I was required to watch before my vasectomy, I should consider…
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| Useful? Check. |
If you’re not fishing for white
bass right now for the same reason I’m not, then I think we both agree that
this little tidbit was useful. It’s the
Culvert way.
I tried to snap a few more
photos from the instructional video. The
following one captured an interesting transition between images. The editing was so superb, I didn’t even
notice it was happening during the film.
It was only later, when sending the images to Jonny during the live
stream that I noticed. We’ve been
searching for a Culvert logo for our hats, and I think we’ve found one.
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| Less useful. But amusing. |
The procedure itself was
largely painless, and quicker than you can tie a wooly bugger. Nonetheless, I got a little light-headed and
nauseous during the surgery and I don’t think it was because of the pain. Right before the doctor started, I caught a
glimpse of the instrument tray. If you
know anything about vasectomies, you know there are a lot of little hoses to
snip, clamp and suture so most of the instruments on the tray were no cause for
alarm.
But the little metal bowl? I could only think of one thing – well, two
really – that would be in danger of rolling off of the tray and there was no
mention of that in the video.
I checked the bowl on my way
out, though, and it was empty. The nausea
passed, and I think we’re all good to go.
I hope you’re able to get
out there and catch the white bass run before it’s over!
