Some of you know that I was out of town on business travel for NASA last week. Well wasn't all work, and I was able to take some time to go visit my mom in the Shenandoah Valley. I also got in some fishing on the Shenandoah river for some smallmouth bass. I also hit a really nice farm pond (lake) for some largemouth bass. Total count was 7 smallmouth and somewhere around 20 largemouth. None of them were huge (except the one huge smallie I lost) but the numbers made for some great fishin and you couldn't beat the back ground views of home that I miss a lot sometimes.
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Originally posted by fletcherfor2 View PostLooks great Derek..I spent 4th and 5th grades in Virginia...beautiful country
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"Bassin"... very clever sir, I get it! I spent some time in Virginia myself in the Navy. Very beautiful state... er... common wealth. I was stationed in VA Beach at NAS Oceana. I would love to go back and visit. Wish I woulda spent more time outdoors and less time at the bar! You live and you learn though... glad you made it back there, looks amazing!Last edited by feralswine; 06-11-2012, 10:14 PM.
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Thanks y'all and for anyone that hasn't been to the Shenandoah Valley, it is well worth the trip. There is some great hunting for some huge whitetails, turkey and bear in the mountains there.
Originally posted by fletcherfor2 View PostI've been in Texas since I was 10 (I'm 60 now), but Martha says I still can't call myself a Texan if I wasn't born here.
Originally posted by Ragin' View PostPretty smallies. I worked a job at the Coors Brewery there for awhile.Last edited by bountyhunter; 06-12-2012, 05:08 AM.
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Originally posted by bountyhunter View Post
Naw you are a Texan by marriage......
He can be a "Texan", but can never be a "Native Texan"
Derek, there is a possibility we might share some ancestry going waaay back.
My Daddy's people left Germany in the mid-1700's- one brother went to England and bought a commission - he was assigned the the king's bodyguard contingent. The other came to America and settled in Rockingham County in the Virginia colony and fought with Washington to gain our independence (I have the documentation and guess I could petition to become a DAR but I'm not that much of a "joiner"). Anyway, if your family has been in the Shenandoah Valley going back several generations, we might be kin!
That is absolutely gorgeous country and I'd love to get up there one day and spend some time (and some genealogy work, too).
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