Fishing Trip Heals Most Woes, Slow Increase In Heat & Rain Chances

I've been enduring a difficult time in my life, and to get me off my pity pot, I went fishing with two long-time dear friends.  It was just what the doctor ordered, not because we caught our limits (we didn't), but the quality/size was outstanding. (trout 16-20", very few throwbacks).  Johnny Lewis caught his limit (8) of keeper redfish, while Hylton Petit & I caught two.  What was unusual about Captain Hylton's fishing was the TWO huge garfish he hooked.  The best part of the trip was the magnificent Monday sunset & the lunch we had at St. Bernard's finest restaurant. Let's start with the sunset, followed by the garfish.

They're called "Alligator Garfish" because they kind of look like an alligator & they have teeth!  My teeth chomped into a shrimp po-boy (dressed of course) at Rocky & Carlo's after a cup of seafood gumbo, yum!  Mr. Tommy & his staff make you feel like family.  May go again next Monday & Tuesday?!!!  Especially since our weather doesn't look like it's changing much.

The upper trough is stuck over the Rockies with several weak impulses racing across to the northeast.  Maybe towards late week, this trough will flatten, allowing a weak cold front to approach.  That would increase our rain chances for the final weekend of Jazz Fest.

I'm not sold on the front making it, but last weekend's isolated storms told me we're nearing the summertime pop-up activity. But not right away.

That front looks close, but it will struggle to reach us due to that SW upper flow.

Today a few storms popped up east of the Florida beaches. We're looking more and more summer-like, yet we're still in April!  Stay tuned!