OK, so maybe it did get too cold to go fishing this past week! Eight degrees is not nearly enough degrees to do much of anything outside. It makes working on reels and reading about fishing while sitting inside beside a nice fire a whole lot better. But we went anyway.

A few years ago I met Steve Huber, a muskie guide from Rhinelander, Wisconsin. I have visited and fished with him a couple of times and enjoyed the trips a lot. This past week he left the cold, frozen north and came to the cold, frozen south to get in some fishing.

Steve does the internet site http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com/ and is working on a new outdoors television program. For several months he has been planning a trip through the south and asked me to set up a striper fishing trip and a hog hunting trip. I arranged them not knowing what the weather was going to do!

Steve and three others helping him with the show arrived at my place at Clark’s Hill last Monday afternoon after driving 19 hours. Although the 50 degree temperatures felt like spring to them, I suggested they wear long pants and shoes rather than shorts and sandals as they seemed to want to put on!

I had arranged a trip with the best striper and hybrid guide on the lake, Captain Dave Willard. Dave had warned us the fishing was tough but I knew if anyone could find the fish, he could. He reluctantly agreed to take us out to try to find some fish.

Tuesday morning we met at a ramp near the dam and got ready to go out. Steve and Dave talked about the fishing and got the basics on tape for the show. Then they went out in Dave’s boat with the cameraman and three of us followed in Steve’s bass boat. The day was cold and windy but not too bad, but the fish must have thought it was awful.