Up in the mountains....

I am in the VA mountains this week, a little vacation from the vacation. As you can see in this pic, 6 hours of torential rain on Monday turned the clear waters of the Cowpasture River to chocolate milk and ran her out of her banks. All this rain bodes well for the Roanoke which should have plenty of water for a long striped bass season.

We were a bit surprised when 3 big muskie were spotted climbing the rapids of the trout stream in front of the house.

Happy Birthday Ruby, 17 years old this week....she doesn't get around much anymore.... Our television. Eveybody is OK watching the same channel: It's starting to rain again, one more trip to the trout stream before heading to the Roanoke. Next pics will be of striped bass.....