Anticipation
Much like that old Heinz 57 ketchup commercial (I realize I’m dating myself with this reference, but if you’re a child of the late sixties or seventies, you might remember this particular ad campaign), it’s only a matter of hours before the goodness in the bottle finally drips out to start the new fishing season on the Connecticut River on January 1. There’s a few of us up here that have been waiting anxiously, really ever since the waning of daylight that closed the season back on October 15.