Smith Lake is the water reservoir for Stafford County. It borders Quantico and requires a Quantico fishing permit. We had never been there and wanted to check it out – conclusion – it’s a sweet lake! Once you find the lake, there are two boat launches – one corresponding to each finger of the lake. …
While a paddle is great on a river, the only way to navigate a small to medium sized bass lake is with a motor. It took me quite a bit of time to find the perfect mount – reliable and cheap. Surprisingly, I found this at LL Bean. I normally associate them with more expensive …
I don’t know about anyone else, but a canoe is not a very comfortable place to spend an afternoon. The seat is strangely shaped – kind of pitches you back – and then there is no back support. For years we use flexible stadium type seats -they were the floppy kind that you could adjust …
My wife and I hit Breckenridge down at the Quantico Marine Corps Base again this weekend (April 3). Breckenridge is a great spot for those of us who can only afford a simple canoe or Jon boat – it’s electric motors only and the “boat ramp” is a gravel dip that a bulldozer must have …
Bass – Breckenridge Reservoir (VA – Quantico MCB) Read More »
Before you pop your bass canoe ontop of your car or truck, you need to make sure that it will stay there as you wing down the road at 60mph. I have a Ranger XLT and it fit my canoe just fine. I would strap it from the front and the back with just enough …
At the Bass Pro Shops Spring sale, I went nuts. Geez. Got everything under the sun – plenty of Gulp! baits, canoe blocks, new seats and… most important… a new way to load the canoe onto the truck. In the past, I would put the foam blocks on the canoe rails and in one motion …
Ultimate Bass Canoe – Getting the boat on your vehicle Read More »
I read a great an obvious quote in a magazine recently. It went something like, to be successful fishing you need to find that 10% of the water that holds the fish. Once you find that 10%, you then need to find the 1% where the fish really are. You can narrow this down a …
Ever clean your Trolling Motor? Not me. Knew that we theoretically had to do this, but never really thought about it until my wife’s line wrapped around the prop. That got me to thinking about seals and how I really did not want to buy a new motor. The small one I had worked just …
In Virginia, we have to deal with Black Bears. According to the book, Bear Aware Survival Guide, you never run or play dead with a Black Bear – instead, you fight. The Colorado Division of Wildlife publishes these rules for bear encounters: IF YOU MEET A BEAR STAY CALM! NEVER RUN. Running can make a bear …