At The Lake

 Yes, at the lake again. Today we had invited some friends to join us which was a nice change. I had slow cooked two pork shoulders last week and made up a pasta salad. Today I just added more BBQ sauce and heated it up over charcoal. Not a lot of pics, but here's a few.

Fishing

 My wife and her dad used to go fishing a lot when she was young. In memory of him on the first Fathers Day since his passing, she wanted to go fishing. So that's exactly what we did.

I had taken one of his old fishing rigs to try and catch something on. The rod is a little loose and the reel has seen better days. It will remain as it is in memoriam. It is also probably now officially retired. Sadly, I did not catch and fish using the old rig.

I did manage to catch a couple of chain pickerel, but to small to keep so they were released. Below are a couple of cool action shots I took from video as well as the video.

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Velociraptor Tracks!

 BIGFOOT HAS COMPETITION!

While visiting a local lake this morning, my wife noticed some very large bird tracks in the water. I went over to have a look and saw these:

Once we got home I did a quick search and they are blue heron tracks. In all my years playing in the outdoors I think this is the first time I have ever actually seen their tracks. I see the birds somewhat often, but don't remember ever seeing the tracks before. Pretty cool.

I was originally thinking crane, but they are more of just a "Y" track.