SFR Confessional: I kinda hate November

Sorta fishing-related
November is a blessing because:

I no longer have to water all the outdoor plants daily.
I can stop cutting the lawn once or twice a week.
Many of my big honey-do 'assignments' are put on-hold until next year.
I do not get woken up by the sun in the early mornings.
Bears are in hibernation so I do not have to worry about them getting into my trash on pick-up day.
I can look forward to power outages. We do not have to cook and get to go out for meals.
 
Josh said:
That's why you gotta stay off Twitter and FB.

Much more important convos on PNWFF.
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Like this one? I have never been on Faceplant or Twitter. Don't know how to do that. This is my only foray into the social media circus. FWIW.
 
Summer's too hot. November is ok, still enough light and weathers not bad. Not looking forward to short, dark, foggy inversion days, seasonal affect gets me. But I know the snow is coming and I love being out/fishing in the snow. Some good, some objectionable facets to every season.
 
Josh said:
I'm not saying there aren't any reasons to like Nov in the PNW. Some of you have obviously got cool stuff still going on.

But I also think it depends a lot on where you are located. My rivers are blown, my bass lakes are closed, there's no real SRC action in my zone, steelhead are a myth at this point, ~40-45% that the ski area will open this month (10 year average), and we get hammered here by the fall storms.

That said, it is neat to hear what folks in other PNW areas are up to. Genuinely happy to hear from those of you who are still out having fall adventures.

Meanwhile, it's gusting to 55mph and dumping rain up here...
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No Josh. The point is you are wrong. You don’t kinda hate November. Okay now we can continue.
 
RCF said:
November is a blessing because:

I no longer have to water all the outdoor plants daily.
I can stop cutting the lawn once or twice a week.
Many of my big honey-do 'assignments' are put on-hold until next year.
I do not get woken up by the sun in the early mornings.
Bears are in hibernation so I do not have to worry about them getting into my trash on pick-up day.
I can look forward to power outages. We do not have to cook and get to go out for meals.
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And snakes are snoozing. Or they better be.
 
Face it dude...
You're just biased against November.
 
When I moved out to western Washington, I started work at my first job in late November. It was raining a lot every day and I commented about it to a coworker. He told me that the previous rainy season included a stretch of over 100 days with measurable rainfall. Must have been a La Nina year.
 
November is the gateway to seemingly endless gray, sodden, muddy, mildewed depression. And worse, it's 11 more months until October.
 
I'm kinda with Josh. So what I do is come out of retirement November 1st for a couple of months and top off the coffers to fund travels for the remaining 9-10 months. It's also the time of year when I get to fire up the wood stove. There is no heat like wood heat!
 
Stonedfish said:
Maybe it is just me or as they say, time seems to go by faster as you age, but November will be over before you know it.
The big dark will begin to recede in about a month and a half and our first tastes of false spring will be upon us in February.
I’m a fan of Team November since it is my favorite month to fish for searun cutts by a wide margin.
SF
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I’ve always maintained the reason time goes faster as you age is you can’t remember what you did yesterday.
 
_WW_ said:
It's also the time of year when I get to fire up the wood stove. There is no heat like wood heat!
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I made a fire 3 times so far, but it isn't cold enough outside. I made small fires, just enough for it to turn on the fireplace fan for a while. And the house heated up to 75 degrees. So we're in that space where the house isn't warm enough on its own - we're super insulated - and it's still too warm outside to comfortably have a fire in the fireplace. So we've been turning on the heat pump, but electric heat just doesn't feel as good as wood heat!
 
Back when there was a ton of salmon in the rivers, I liked November. Chum fishing in the Tillamook rivers and coho fishing on the Siletz was a blast !

However, there are no longer a ton of salmon in the rivers and I gave up searching for them years and years ago.

So now, I'm also not much of a fan of November. .... or December and January for that matter. 🫤
 
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Salmo_g said:
I made a fire 3 times so far, but it isn't cold enough outside. I made small fires, just enough for it to turn on the fireplace fan for a while. And the house heated up to 75 degrees. So we're in that space where the house isn't warm enough on its own - we're super insulated - and it's still too warm outside to comfortably have a fire in the fireplace. So we've been turning on the heat pump, but electric heat just doesn't feel as good as wood heat!
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We're doing the same, only we have a gas insert.
 
At least you're grounded now in November.

Hope you have boarded your windows up!!!
Oly gonna get weird the next few days.
 
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