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A Guide to Smith Mountain Vacations
 
Smith Mountain Lake is situated in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. This region is stunningly beautiful and offers a great deal of attractions that will appeal to nearly everyone. The lake has a coastline of about 500 miles. People in this area enjoy several activities on the lake itself, but there are enough golf courses and fine restaurants to lure visitors back to the land. Smith Mountain Lake State Park is another wonderful place for travelers to visit.

A Smith Mountain Lake vacation is the perfect antidote to stressful city living. Visitors can enjoy activities on the lake such as fishing, swimming, boating, sailing, wakeboarding, and jet skiing. The fishing on Smith Mountain Lake is particularly renowned. The water is filled with different types of bass, crappie, catfish, and more; many of the species breed naturally and do not even need to be stocked. There are a number of fishing tournaments held on Smith Mountain Lake during the year, for both locals and visitors to compete in.

The land surrounding the lake has its share of attractions as well. The area features golf courses and tennis courts for sports enthusiasts, as


well as an annual wine tasting and many fine restaurants for people who just want to relax. Smith Mountain Lake also has over a hundred unique shops where people can buy one of a kind crafts, souvenirs, or fashionable apparel. The possibilities are endless.

Smith Mountain Lake State Park has all of the outdoor activities that anyone could hope for. The park features beautiful hike and bike trails, picnic places, camping, cabin rentals, and lake activities such as swimming, boating, and fishing.

A Smith Mountain vacation is perfect for anyone wanting to get way from it all of a few days. Whether the vacation is a romantic trip for two or an adventure for the whole family, visitors will find what they are looking for on Smith Mountain Lake. Mountain Vacations Info provides detailed information on vacations in the Rocky, Blue Ridge, and Great Smoky Mountains, as well as mountain biking vacations and mountain rental cabins in Colorado, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and other destinations. Mountain Vacations Info is the sister site of Dude Ranch Web.


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Wilkes Barre Times-Leader

Ice-fishing festival gets assist from cold weather | Outdoors
The Seattle Times
With a deep freeze settling into areas east of the Cascades, anglers are breaking through the ice to catch fish. By Mark Yuasa No comments have been posted to this article. With a deep freeze settling into areas east of the Cascades, ...
Area lakes offer winter trout opportunitiesWatertownDailyTimes.com
Mild weather not as nice as iceWilkes Barre Times-Leader

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Bellingham Herald

OUTDOORS: Lower Columbia fishing set, halibut hold line
Bellingham Herald
Early 2012 salmon, steelhead and sturgeon fishing seasons are now set for the lower Columbia River, giving anglers some hard information on which to plan trips. Expectations rate as good for the lower Columbia's early returning chinook fishery this ...
Biologists predicting strong run of Columbia spring chinook this yearTheNewsTribune.com
Outdoors Digest: Tuesday's ODFW meeting will explain public proposalsCoos Bay World

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Minister Ashfield Announces a 2011 National Recreational Fisheries Award ...
MarketWatch (press release)
GRANBY, QUEBEC, Feb 04, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Gateway, today announced that Claude Bernard is a winner of a 2011 National Recreational ...

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SUNDAY FISHING REPORT
al.com
By Frank Sargeant, The Huntsville Times There's been a steady increase in the numbers of lunker bass caught in North Alabama the last several weeks, and that's only going to continue getting better from now through March as the pre-spawn fish now being ...

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For-profit fishing limited on reefs off Georgetown
MyrtleBeachOnline.com
Commercial spear fishing was stripping clean artificial reefs that were meant for recreational fishing, anglers claimed. Two years later, after The Post and Courier's 2009 report of the alleged abuses, a federal law has been put on the books to ...
For-profit fishing limited on reefsCharleston Post Courier

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