Fishing has taken a backseat to an important project I have going on at present.  The 2011 flood has messed up my fishing from it’s start and I have a way to go until fishing gets back to a more regular schedule. I am raising my house on the river three feet, demolishing the bottom floor and repairing the flood damage in the top floor. This is how the house looked before the flood.

The flood floated off the rear stairs, almost the side stairs, reached the ceiling of the downstairs, got a foot deep upstairs, and floated the garage into the trees destroying it.  The downstairs has been demolished, the house has been raised and the supporting piers are the next step. Here is where we are now.

After the raising is complete, and after repair is started, my fishing may pick up some, especially if the weather cools off.  The temperatures have been brutal. Even though I have been doing no actual work, I have lost enough weight to where my pants are trying to fall off.  I’m going to have to take lessons from those guys you see on the street walking and having to hold their pants up with one hand.