A Season for Everything
Consistency
The ability to stay focused on a particular thing, daily. Adhering to a process.
With consistency, we implement an action that advances the particular thing mentioned earlier.
Consistency yields compounding interest. As an aging adult, we start to recognize that improving our consistency helps us build whatever it is we want to build; we just gotta show up every day.
As we walked into Crumps store on Wednesday June 16, 2021 the image of a weed leaf struck our eye. It was on the front of a local news resource. The title of this partcular article read “When the Smoke Clears”, an article from the Chesterfield Observer written by Donna Gregory Burch regarding the new marijuana laws in Virginia.
But think again if you’re under the impression that you’ll be firing up bowls of buddha on the jon boat without consequences. Because there’s still laws that prohibit puffing on purple haze in public.
Overall the article states that as of July 1, 2021 adults 21-years-old and up can burn small bags of trees all they want in private settings. However, the laws are going to be a work in progress for years to come according to Burch.
That said, her article clears up the new Virginia marijuana laws like this—- the laws really aren’t that clear. That’s no smoke towards Burch. But the laws seem premature and a bit amusing in our opinion.
You may be able to possess weed AND grow marijuana as an adult, but you don’t exactly have a license to do whatever you want when it comes to smoking weed in Virginia.
This group is responsible for overseeing and creating the retail marijuana market.
The state-authorized group that examines policy on behalf of the Virginia General Assembly. They have concerns about weed laws in future. As laws are created they want more misdemeanor charges added into VA’s marijuana legislation. Current Virginia laws sock sativa fans in the face with civic penalties if you’re caught with 1 oz to a pound of chronic. Anything more than an LB is a felony.
At the end of the day, the JLARC is advocating for additional penalties be added between civil and felony statutes. They want more penalties because other states are doing it so Virginia can do it as well.
Virginia police are being trained to understand the new laws and will be enforcing penlties for smoking & driving.
Yes. But read the fine lines. You must be an adult 21 and up to possess it. No more than a pound. And you can only use it in private.
In a nutshell, according to the Chesterfield Observer, you can own an O and be cool, legally. You can even share it with your homeboys if you’re not charging them. If you do, you’re selling. And that’s not legal.
Absolutely. It sounds strange, we know. But the answer is, yes, there are illegal aspects of this strange business. And speaking as elders of the unit we think this legalization maneuver is total insanity. But that’s neither here or there. We just deliver the news.
On that note, Here’s a list of weed violations
Yes. But there are stipulations. You can grow up to four plants indoors or outdoors. But they have to be tagged. Meaning you must attach documentation to your plants that include: name, drivers license info or state id info along with a slogan that reads “for personal use”. The realist says to me, your a set up waiting to happen.
Burch states that plants cannot be visible to the public…. Without use of aircraft, visual tools including binoculars. Her well-written article states growing trees is limited to private property and its not a given you can raise your herb on rental property.
Yes. Current law states you cannot fire people who are prescribed medical marijuana. But if you’re not in that category and you’re caught with some nuggs or impaired by them they can take actions however they seem fit.
As an adult you face a $25 civic penalty.
You are indeed ignorant. And you face a felony up to 10 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000. Trust us. Its not worth it, dawg.
Sheeesh.
If you want more information on Virginia weed laws go to vanorml.com
This is the go-to bait Clay Moseley reaches for on any given overcast-weather day. If there is anything Moseley specializes in it’s fishing the frog and he would never steer you wrong.
That said, this specific frog has put more bass in the boat more than any other here at CVA Outdoors. The only draw back to the bait is the belly button on the frog. You’ll notice that after a series of big bass bust this bait’s ass, the belly button on the frog will become weak. This allows for water to fill up the hollow frog. The frog will longer work properly once this happens.
But the belly button of the frog is only a small price to pay when you know how well the frog works. We just make sure we have about five of them on the boat. Tackle warehouse doesn’t have the black and blue model in stock, but you can buy the Lunkerhunt walking frog in other colors if you want to see what they offer. We also like the green-top, white bottom version of the frog.
What maks this little frog the best is the tassle legs. Just a flinch on your retreive kicks the frog in such a natural way that lurking lunkers can’t help but get a better look.
Lee Lake, also known as Nottoway Lake, is a body of water located out in Amelia, Virginia off Route 153. Lee Lake is somewhat of a secret to most Virginia bass fisherman. So know it’s another option if you’re searching for less-pressured fishing holes.
It can be a challenge bass fishing Lee Lake. The water is filled with submerged structure and if the water is low, expect a rough ride; you will glance off stumps frequently.However, there a lot of deep water. But as far as the way we like to fish Lee Lake; we tend to lean towards the more shallow areas because the topwater bite can get nasty in the summer.
In this video we rolled out to Lee Lake early in the morning. Moseley actually screwed the pooch and woke up late. But Moseley and Lutz met up at the boat launch around 6am whereby Lutz had already broke the ice with the topwater bite. He was already on track with the plan: catch bass on the frog.
Once Moseley stepped on the boat the two men trolled to the back of the lake. In our opinion, especially on a dank muggy morning, the very back of the lake produces the best top-water bite. The lake runs real shallow in the back and there is a lot of vegetation and grass. There are massive root balls from fallen, timbered trees floating around as well. These root balls offer a lot of opportunity; they tend to act as strong holds for bass.
Once we reached the very back we turned the boat around and hugged the right-side bank lines. With Lutz on the foot-controlled trolling motor moving at a snails pace, Moseley worked the vegetation and floating root balls we mentioned earlier. Moseley, as always, worked a black and blue Lunkerhunt Kraken series frog. He would cast ahead of the goat, let the frog float and implement soft-touch series of three-twitch retrieves.
As you can see in the video, it didn’t take too long for Moseley to find a nice bass hanging out in the floating structures at the back of Lee Lake.