G Bob
Posts : 1472
Join date : 2010-02-02
Age : 67
Location : Frankford,WV
 |  Subject: Smith Mountain Lake 5-15-12  Fri May 18, 2012 10:09 am | |
| Since it wont be long till the fishing winds down Dad and I decided to slip over to Smith Mountain Lake for a day of fishing. When we arrived it was beautiful. Big fluffy white clouds and warm weather.  051512-_046 by gbobbrown, on Flickr  051512-_051 by gbobbrown, on Flickr We made our way down to the dam which is about 8 miles from the dock.  051512-_056 by gbobbrown, on Flickr We fished for about 1 ½ hours before I noticed the sky getting dark back towards the dock. It wasn’t long before the thunder started to rumble and we started seeing a few flashes of lighting.  051512-_062 by gbobbrown, on Flickr  051512-_064 by gbobbrown, on Flickr I convinced Dad that we ought to start heading back up the lake and it ended up being a smart decision. We just did make it back to the dock when all hell let loose. We had rain, sleet and a terrible lighting storm that went on for over an hour.  051512-_065 by gbobbrown, on Flickr After all that we were treated to a nice double rainbow and then a beautiful sunset  051512-_068 by gbobbrown, on Flickr  051512-_070 by gbobbrown, on Flickr  051512-_073 by gbobbrown, on Flickr The fishing wasn’t much good after the storm but we got up at the crack of dawn on Wednesday and had a great morning fishing. Caught 16 between us with 4 nice eating size keepers (limit of 2 per person per day) . When we went to load up the boat we discovered that the rain had washed so much sand and gravel into the loading ramp that we couldn’t load the boat. We ended up having to take the boat about two miles up the lake to another loading ramp to get it loaded. All in all another good trip with Dad and looks like we’re heading back again Sunday | |
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Sportsman
Posts : 856
Join date : 2010-02-01
Location : Wild and Wonderful
| | Subject: Re: Smith Mountain Lake 5-15-12 Fri May 18, 2012 9:54 pm | |
| Glad you got to fish even with a storm. Enjoy all the time you can with your dad. Great pictures too.  | |
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scooter
Posts : 239
Join date : 2010-11-21
Age : 38
Location : PA
| | Subject: Re: Smith Mountain Lake 5-15-12 Sat May 19, 2012 12:14 am | |
| Sounds like a good day. Nice pics. | |
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wacker
Posts : 4055
Join date : 2010-01-30
Location : S/C PA
| | Subject: Re: Smith Mountain Lake 5-15-12 Mon May 21, 2012 9:43 pm | |
| Nice Pics Really like the sunset and the reflections on the 3rd dam picture Thanks for sharing and posting  | |
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giddyupgirl
Posts : 880
Join date : 2010-02-09
| | Subject: Re: Smith Mountain Lake 5-15-12 Tue May 22, 2012 8:58 pm | |
| Looks awesome. Hard to beat a nice lake and a sunset. | |
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Prairie Pounder
Posts : 984
Join date : 2010-02-05
Location : Go Bucks!
| | Subject: Re: Smith Mountain Lake 5-15-12 Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:30 pm | |
| Great pics, G. I was gonna post some pics of my recent fishing trip, but not now.  Maybe later...  | |
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