On Father's Day...




My thoughts on Father’s Day are not the typical ones where the father introduced his son to the outdoors. My earliest remembrances of him were his love of baseball, watching the games across the street from where we lived. On weekends he spent a lot of time in his woodworking shop in the garage or tinkering around in our yard.

During my preteen years someone, I don’t remember who, gave me a stack of Field & Stream, Outdoor Life and Sports Afield magazines. I was enthralled by the stories of fishing and hunting. I wanted to spend time fishing and hunting. I spent hours devouring stories about fishing and hunting in such places as Michigan and Minnesota. I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Another thing that kept me from fishing was that my parents did not own a car. Everywhere we went we either walked or used public transportation.

I got into fishing when I found a small “Pay Lake” within a couple miles from my home. You paid a small fee, a dollar and two, and wet your line. I spent my summers and weekends hooking up my fishing rods, tackle box and minnow bucket off my bike’s handlebars and riding off to Dream Valley, name of the lake, learning how to fish for catfish.

I got my father into fishing. He knew how much I loved it. I can remember him cleaning my first catfish that I caught, neither one of us knew what we were doing…blood and entrails all over the board we were using.

I finally talked him into going fishing with me, walking the couple of miles to Dream Valley where I taught him how to catch catfish. I remember the walk home after a successful day on the water, him and me sharing the load of carrying the fishing tackle and me carrying a stringer of catfish, passerby’s admiring our fish.

What’s your favorite story of your father on this Father’s Day?




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Fishing Report from TPWD (Mar. 27)

GOOD. Water normal stain; 63 degrees; 0.48 feet above pool. The lake continues at the full level, giving lots of area for spawning activity. However, the weather continues to be uncooperative, keeping the water temperatures about 5 degrees lower than normal for this date. The fish are moving in through the staging areas, but in 2-3 days they are pushed back out by north winds and lower temperatures. All species can be caught and fishing is good, but the bite periods remain short. Best bet is to watch the wind forecasts for south to southeast winds at less than 10-12 mph, and watch the moon position for the classic rise, set, and meridian times. Blue catfish remain very good on live minnows and cut bait. Hybrid stripers are good trolling rigs, but they tend to move out of an area quickly, a pattern that will continue until the strong shad spawn develops. Report by Jim Beggerly, Jim’s Fishing. Crappie fishing is good on jigs and minnows in 1-15 feet of water. About half of the fish have already spawned. Bass fishing is good in 2-8 feet of water on plastics around structure and baits that displace water on grass lines and edges of structure. Report by Sam Parker, Freshwater Fishing Adventures.

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