Stocking Day

A beautiful warm fall day.  Many came to Wichita to fish for trout.  Not everyone caught today.  I fished one pool at the Slough with no results.  I moved up to the next one and caught on my first cast with my grandfather's rod that Neal Hall finished refurbishing yesterday.  All the rest of my casts must have been too awkward to fool the fish. I probably drove them into hiding.  Fly fishing takes practice!  There were fish jumping for a while, so I switched to a dry fly, but then they stopped jumping.  The trout they stock are fat and sassy.

I got busy writing a song for my son-in-law's birthday and did not write a new fishing song today!

http://www.cantos.org/fishing has a link to all kinds of fishing information, including:

U.S. Naval Observatory
Astronomical Applications Department

Sun and Moon Data for One Day

The following information is provided for Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas (longitude W97.3, latitude N37.7):

Friday   
        20 November 2009      Central Standard Time          

                         SUN
        Begin civil twilight       6:47 a.m.                 
        Sunrise                    7:15 a.m.                 
        Sun transit               12:15 p.m.                 
        Sunset                     5:15 p.m.                 
        End civil twilight         5:43 p.m.                 

                         MOON
        Moonset                    7:32 p.m. on preceding day
        Moonrise                  10:46 a.m.                 
        Moon transit               3:36 p.m.                 
        Moonset                    8:30 p.m.                 
        Moonrise                  11:23 a.m. on following day

 

Phase of the Moon on 20 November:   waxing crescent with 15% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.
New Moon on 16 November 2009 at 1:14 p.m. Central Standard Time.