Heat Dome - Stay cool

Bamboozle said:
Mike & I go back a way as I bought a bunch of glass rods from him when the bug first bit me, which was before he was rolling his own blanks. A couple are pretty custom including a 6'0" 2pc 3wt with a nickel silver ferrule and another with two different tips.

My 7'0" 3pc 4wt & 8'0" 3pc 5wt "smooth blank" Spruce Creek rods are among the nicest rods I ever cast in any material.

What Orvis bamboo did you acquire?
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An Orvis Battenkill 7'9" Midge Special, 4/5 wt. with two tips. Close as I can tell, it was made in about 1976.
 
One thing to keep in mind: staying inside, keeping cool does not prevent you from impulses, or otherwise not getting into trouble.

The internet brings sales sheets, mark-downs, auctions from far and wide, right to your fingertips, in the cool air conditioned comfort of your home.

I bought a 'new-to-me' Gene Edwards 8' 5-6wt cane stick yesterday. I made a low-ball offer that I was sure would get balked; but, to my wife's eventual dismay (when she finds out) it was accepted.

Joe
 
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I'm going to the Chesapeake where it will be 5+ degrees even warmer than here. AC, shade, water, praying for a breeze. Redneck fireworks. Like summer in Boise with 100X the humidity. I mowed half my yard yesterday. Just getting over a cold. Best I've felt all week, afterward.

These danger charts are quite skewed. Just like the cold, common sense is the key.
 
tomgamber said:
I'm going to the Chesapeake where it will be 5+ degrees even warmer than here. AC, shade, water, praying for a breeze. Redneck fireworks. Like summer in Boise with 100X the humidity. I mowed half my yard yesterday. Just getting over a cold. Best I've felt all week, afterward.

These danger charts are quite skewed. Just like the cold, common sense is the key.
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Spot price in south-central MD today (per MW-hr). This is on a rural co-op... I haven't looked at other segments of the PJM grid.
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In the process of documenting the warming impact of a pond on a MD wild trout stream, so I'll be heading out late afternoon today for some measurements. Should be interesting. Most years it seems we make a run at triple digits around July 4. I'm hoping this ends up being the hottest weather of the year, I'm encouraged to see cooling back to mid 80s next week.
 
Kms said:
Key for safety is the “wetbulb globe temperature.” Note that this guidance was made for young athletes not old fat guys:
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Just for accuracy the wet bulb was designed by the U.S. military and any reference to training is military training, or as John Winger would say, “Army training, sir.”
 
sarce said:
In the process of documenting the warming impact of a pond on a MD wild trout stream, so I'll be heading out late afternoon today for some measurements. Should be interesting. Most years it seems we make a run at triple digits around July 4. I'm hoping this ends up being the hottest weather of the year, I'm encouraged to see cooling back to mid 80s next week.
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Will be interesting to hear about what you learn. In my experience, unless its a spring fed pond/collection pool for one or more strong springs, a pond will warm the stream; worse yet, there is the potential to reduce dissolved oxygen. This is one of the issues with beaver dams, if they end up in the 'wrong' spot on a coldwater trout stream.

Joe
 
CinnamonJoe said:
Will be interesting to hear about what you learn. In my experience, unless its a spring fed pond/collection pool for one or more strong springs, a pond will warm the stream; worse yet, there is the potential to reduce dissolved oxygen. This is one of the issues with beaver dams, if they end up in the 'wrong' spot on a coldwater trout stream.

Joe
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Found 90 degree water in the pond, with the outflow being 82 degrees by the time it reached the receiving stream, which was running around 73 degrees. The water entering the pond was around 63 so essentially the pond turns it from a potential nice cooling effect on the trib into a warm water influence. It also contributes a lot of bluegills and even largemouths to the trout stream. All browns I saw in the trib were upstream of the pond outflow. Trib was 75 below the pond's influence.
 
sarce said:
Found 90 degree water in the pond, with the outflow being 82 degrees by the time it reached the receiving stream, which was running around 73 degrees. The water entering the pond was around 63 so essentially the pond turns it from a potential nice cooling effect on the trib into a warm water influence. It also contributes a lot of bluegills and even largemouths to the trout stream. All browns I saw in the trib were upstream of the pond outflow. Trib was 75 below the pond's influence.
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I love ponds but those receiving cold water like that should be banned. I know when we did stream work on the lower Segloch, the farmer was allowed a pond where some colder water trickled through some wetlands. One step forward, 2 steps backwards.
 
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