I have heard claims that the early hurricanes and tropical storms this year are because of global warming. That has caused a lot more rain, and all our lakes are full. Seems I remember during our drought when all our lakes were low that the drought was cause by global warming, too.

In January, 2005 Linda and I went on a cruise in Antarctica. We met the ship in what is called “The Last City On Earth,” Ushuaia, Argentina, right on the tip of South America. While touring that city we noticed a hillside covered in grass and the tour guide told us it was their ski area. Since we were there in the middle of their summer we were not surprised it was not covered with snow, although most of the surrounding mountains were snow capped.

The tour guide explained that they were not getting as much snow as normal because of global warming and did not get to ski much, even in the winter. Then a couple of days later while on the ship in the Drake Passage it was snowing on us. One of the guides on the ship said snow was unusual there in the middle of summer, but because of global warming they got a lot more snow than they used to.

So, it is dryer and wetter here because of global warming. It snows more and less in South America because of global warming. That seems to be a great catch all to blame weather problems on.

I bet the reason I didn’t catch many fish in the Lanier tournament in May was due to global warming. From now on, if the fish don’t bite I have something to blame it on, global warming. I used to say it was too hot or too cold or too windy or too calm or too cloudy or too sunny when I could not catch bass. Now I can simplify things. No matter what is going on, I can blame not catching fish on global warming.

That should work for hunting, too. Not seeing deer today? Global warming. Doves not flying? Global warming. Doesn’t matter that other guys in the hunting club are killing deer and shooting doves on their fields, that is a great excuse.

Good luck fishing this weekend. Hope global warming doesn’t get you and ruin your trip!