Is it over?

After our recent scrape with the vaunted 'Polar Vortex', temperatures will rebound next week along the north central gulf coast.
Highs in the low 70s are forecast (even in Gulf Shores) through most of next week...
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...2#.XFRJFlxKjcs

No, spring isn't here yet, but it may be just around the corner ;-)
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...76&oe=5CF8BA8D

Note: with nearshore gulf water temperatures languishing in the low 60s (to below 60 in the bays), I suspect there will be more fog than sunny beach days from this...

Another sign of an early spring?
There are buds on this tree...
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...8f&oe=5CFFC872

;-) LOL!

The Tombigbee at Jackson, AL, is still out of it's banks. I saw a sparkleberry bush at the hunting camp that was just about ready to pop its blooms and the forecast temperatures for the high seventies this week will likely set it off. It just barely got cold enough this winter to kill back the kudzu. Hopefully we'll have a warm, early spring that will encourage the fish to bite. Except for the sharks---we don't want them to bite.

I have a lot more firewood left over than I expected to. It will keep until next year.

One more week of deer season---I think the season is too long, but I feel obligated to hunt until the end. Then a four week break until spring gobbler season.

I killed my first deer in 51,52 season in the swamps near Macintosh which I believe is not far from the area you hunt.

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Originally Posted by oldfisherman

I killed my first deer in 51,52 season in the swamps near Macintosh which I believe is not far from the area you hunt.

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My stomping grounds are about 45 miles north of there on the other side of the Tombigbee.

I’ve got a camp where you’re talkin about oldfisherman. I launch at McIntosh and hunt Hal’s Lake. Just a little bit of land out this past weekend but hopefully the river will continue to fall for the last weekend

Word from guys I talked too in our office this morning is that there are dead (drowned) pigs all over the woods in the Upper Delta. Not surprising given how high the water.

Oh man - that's so sad. I know a lot of people hate the hogs but they'r just trying to make a living as a hog. I hunt them because I like to eat them - I don't hate them. They've been here for a long time and can't really do much damage in the swamps.

Happened during Hurricane Ivan and Katrina too, took less than a year for the population to rebuild.

At 3 litters a year with 6 or 7 piglets making it to adulthood it doesn't take long. Our property on the Tombigbee in Nanafalia was swarming with hogs. They headed for the high ground and most survived. Even the hibernating Timber rattlers made their way to a tree or log jam to ride out the flood. Our deer pretty much abandoned the river bottom green fields which turned to brown fields when the water receded.