Spring Hiking / Fishing / Camping

Well folks,
It's that time of year again.
Spring has sprung, the grass has riz...well sorta...at least I think that
there's grass under the snow...somewhere... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Anyway, that's not the reason for this post.
I've got camping and fishing on the brain after being cooped up for so long.
Thought that winter would never end. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
To say that I've got "get-out-itus is a definite understatement. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

Curiosity has gotten the better of me, so I'd like to know if any of you
other Dawgs have Spring Camping / Hiking / Fishing plans?
If you do, maybe you could share your plans with us other Dawgs?

Are you planning Family Car Camping, a solo trip for a month,
something in between, deep sea fishing maybe??? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />
Anything goes...well almost anything...remember, this IS a FAMILY type forum <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Pictures from past trips are more than welcome... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Help me get into the groove for this year fellow Dawgs!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I've got plans in April for some car camping and some good day hikes in NM in May.

I am looking for a canoe so that I can hit the local lakes and do some fishing.
It will mostly be to lakes that I can drive to.

work picks for me in the spring and summer, long hours so not much for me....more in the fall i hammer the hils.

I have had a couple walk-abouts this week and it did me good. I need to get my fishing lic. so I can pack the rod with me and do some fishing while I am out and about. The spring is here!

its was 30 degrees here today and even colder at night but all the snow has melted,100%.

the change of seasons is something you feel in your bones.more than just the feel of temperature changes.

well hawaii doesnt really have intense seasons like most of you but ive been planning a sea to summit on the big island. i just need to save some money to not be able to work for a week and a half to cover bills. it would be solo...right now there is too much volcano VOG to hike successfully.

0 to 13,700 sounds like a great challenge.

if anything ill fly back over to kauai and do the kalalau again and cruise with the naked hippies! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

MCJ - that's why they call it Paradise! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Most of my outdoor adventures will be centered around my pond. My son and family will be visiting us - during the week of Blade! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" /> - and we will spend most of the time fishing, grilling, playing pool or foosball.

Looks like I have a nice flock of turkeys hanging around, so I will probably do a little turkey hunting as well. I love the fact that I can fish and hunt and never have to leave my property!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Sounds like a great location for the 1st annual JYD1 Mid-America Chopin. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" />

0-13,700 is something that sounds interesting for sure.

As to turkey hunting, I have been thinking about trying that but never see turkey unless they are out of season--I guess they make me look like a turkey too LOL.

When I do see turkeys at our place there are about 50 at a time. Lol, and of course generally out of season. I'd rather shoot a whitetail anyway.

I am also getting the fever to get out. I have been doing some short day hikes around this area. I am close enough to Yellowstone NP to do some weekend trips there. I am going to try and make it there once a season starting with this spring. Mostly it will be car camping and hiking for the spring.

yellowstone is the only park my ol lady keeps talking about. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> shes upset that we couldnt check it out since it was still way to early in spring.

klink id be at my pond fishing with my son too! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />


haha!

I'm planning on going camping with the old lady, and fishing with my brother and pops.. I love spring.. I wish it could be like this year round..

Yup this has been a long winter..This summer Im going to Montauk Ny which I try to do every year and me and my girl are driving to Roswell NM for the UFO Festival they have every year which should be interesting and of course alot of camping!

NM has some high peaks if you are going to bother to be all the way over LGM. Maybe you should walk up a few.

Im sure I will.. This will be my first time going anywhere far away so I will try to make the best of it

Sounds like fun

be sure to go to buy the roswell ale with the alien on the packaging. they sell them at walmart...beers alllll the way in the back! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> not too bad beer, wayyyyyy better souvenir! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

We have an area called Margaret Falls Canyon in a provincial park about an hour
away from us, so I'm going to try go get in there for a hike within the next
couple of weeks.
In the summer when it's 90 to 100+ degrees F, you walk into the canyon and the
temperature drops by a good 10 - 15 degrees. The closer you get to the falls,
the more the temperature drop.
I'll be taking pictures when I do the walk and post them on here.

Oh yea I will get my self a case or two <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/loopy.gif" alt="" />

I'm hoping to go to Kodiak, AK for some salmon and halibut fishing this summer. A very good friend of mine lives there and has offered me a place to stay.

Friends of my wife and I were talking about doing that too.
They invited us to come along and I'm thinking of it if I can
get the time off of work.
Right now, my wife is on the phone with her mother and they are
talking about taking a cruise. Wonder if they'd let me fish
off the side of one of those cruise ships? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

When I was about 15? I went on an Alaskan cruise. It was pretty fun.

snotpig - go for it!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> Having a place to stay for free really helps take the sting out of travel expenses, and makes the trip more enjoyable. When my wife and I went to Alaska in 90' we stayed at her uncle's place when in Anchorage. He let us use his truck with cap for camping and fishing around the Kenai peninsula - a really great time! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> I hope you make the trip!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

That would be a trip of a lifetime for me.

The last week in April I'm off to Big Hill Lake in Kansas for a week of camping, boating and fishing. My best friend lives 2 1/2 hours north of me. My birthday is the end of April and his is the end of May. We try to plan a trip some time between the two each year.

Last year the DMDC was the primary knife for the trip. So which one I should take this year <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

A SOD and a ScrapMuk of course! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I have an SOD but I passed on the ScrapMuk. What is your second choice?

Man for me it would be the SOD and MUK too. I still would like to get a Bird Dog for the outing trips, but have to wait and see what comes along.

Before I got the MUK I used to take a Green River cheapy buffalo skinner and it did pretty well.

I have a Bird Dog. I can do the SOD and Bird Dog.

I can't wait until it warms up a bit, I've been wanting to go down to Turkey Run state park down in central Indiana. I hear it has some good trails.

Here is a pic of a bluegill I caught last week, I caught a bunch of them this size.

Here is one I took a picture of I caught about three that day in about 2 hours or so. Just chillin at the lake beind the in-laws barn, took thier lab with me. I couldn't keep him out of the water!

You guys with the fish are making me jealous. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
The ice just came off the river in the last couple of weeks,
but is still on the lakes. Man, I can't wait! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Sumo,
I live in the west, so a trip to the coast is special, but not a trip of a
lifetime. The wife and I are taking a trip to Newfoundland on the east coast,
and that will be a trip of a lifetime for me. I've always wanted to go there
(since I was a little kid), so I'm not going to waste any time while there.
Plenty of time to sleep at work when I get back. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

b-clip, those pan fish taste great.

Dotd, I understand about time to worry and work when at home--and sure do understand the relaxation of being away.

That sure is a nice bass there, and as a kid I was called the perch (that is what they call them in my family)king because I could catch them anywhere and on anything. I really think it had to do with me making my own corks that mimicked dead wood instead of colored floats. Who knows, I do know I would not go hungry as long as there is a pond, lake or stream!

These bluegill do taste good, especially this time of year when the water is colder. If I wasn't raining so hard today I would be out trying to catch some, maybe tomorrow.

whens the festival ill be in RIO RANCHO for a wedding the last week of April till May 4th

Im pretty sure it's July 2-5

SS4 ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I don't have a SS4 either PK <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />. I did just get off the phone with my fishing buddy. He wanted to plan the food for the week. I asked why? No matter how we plan we both bring enough food to feed 4 people for two weeks <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

better to have too much food than not enough!

Well, here I was, all set to go and check out some new fishing gear,
and what do I wake up to this morning? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />



2 inches of snow!!!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbdn.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbdn.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbdn.gif" alt="" />

My knives to take out with me would be a DFLE and the SS4. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Don't have a DFLE, <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> so will substitute that with my Camp Tramp <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> or SOD <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Oh, and since I've gotten the Muk, I'll have to fit that in there somewhere too <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />