It was cold. Not, damn-I-wish-I'd-put-on-another-layer cold. It was I-hate-my-life, I-should-move-to-the-desert cold.
Any reasonable person would have gone home - or not suited up to begin with. But it was Dec. 31, and I hadn't caught a trout yet that month. So it didn't matter that it was near zero with God-only-knows what real-feel temperature courtesy of sustained 30 mph winds and I had to stop every other cast to break ice out of each crusted eyelet.