I was told years ago that if the birds are lined up on the high wire fishing would be bad and the more birds the worse it is. This has peoven to be true way more times then not . My friend lives on rough and he has told me that fishing has been realy tough the last 2 weeks and I told hime I had been seeing a lots of birds lined up on the wire. He said his fishing forcast thing said it was suposed to be realy good fishing and it has been realy wrong I told him the weather would have more to do with it then anything.
I burn wood for heat and I can tell you when the smoke goes strait to the ground it means it is going to rain/snow and get colder and when it goes strait up in the air you might as well stay home because fishing is realy bad..
I pay alot of attention to the squirrel nest as well and this year they seem to be high in the trees but close to the main steem of the tree so it should be a bad winter this year we will see..