Get Dad out there this weekend
I hope everyone has some fun outdoors adventures planned for this Father’s Day weekend.
Not a big fan of holidays created by the greeting card industry, I like to say that every day is Father’s Day for me. So I have no plans for a special Father’s Day celebration. For me, the best way to spend the day is doing what I do many weekend days — doing fun stuff outdoors with my family.
Not that you all need suggestions for fun outdoors ways to spend Father’s Day, but that was the subject of my Outdoors page feature in today’s Roanoke Times.
Everybody, have a great weekend!
June 15, 2012 - 3:37 PM
we are planning a trip to Smith Mountain Lake tomorrow night to do some catfishing. All of the men in the family are going.I will update you later on how many (if any) we catch .Like my father always told us “sitting here on the bank is better then sitting on the carport at the house watching cars go by” .He is right.
fished from 7pm-100 am. only had a few bites . we threw everything at them :nightcrawlers (brown and green) corn (for carp) and chicken livers.someone was even using sour candy worms stil no fish . still a great time was had by all. we had 8 fisherman in our group. the boat ramp banks were pretty packed last nite .. i counted 16 poles in the water on my section of the bank . and only one guy near the boat ramp was catching anything. may hit the james river next time.
I couldn’t agree more. I had a great day on the river yesterday with my brother and two sons Cody & Caleb. We caught & released a lot of fish in just a few hours right in the middle of the afternoon. It was a great early father’s day gift for me. Everyone should be so lucky.
Thanks for the nudge to get out over the Fathers Day weekend Mark but we all ready had it planned! The wife and I and my two boys spent the day Sunday trying out our two new fishing kayaks and our Old Town on the New River. Floated from Whitethorne to Big Falls, caught and released a couple dozen smallies (no trophies but lots of fun!) and no one got sunburned. Took about six hours total, but if we hadn’t got in the water so late (11:00am) I could have spent a couple more hours catching fish. With the late start we had to paddle through some great looking water to make sure we got to our destination before dark…some deep slow water with lots of cover that occasionally we’d see a large fish break the top of the water up through the grass. Even had a Bald Eagle flyover just before finishing up the trip at McCoy….beautiful! The only way the trip could have went better would have been to hook up with a trophy smallmouth or one of those muskies you wrote about last week. Maybe next time up there….