{"id":35,"date":"2007-09-03T17:59:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T22:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/03\/unplugged-at-lake-alan-henry\/"},"modified":"2007-09-03T18:14:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T23:14:44","slug":"unplugged-at-lake-alan-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/03\/unplugged-at-lake-alan-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing at Lake Alan Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now for something completely different&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In rare form, I unplugged from most of the world for a change and headed down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakealanhenry.org\/\">Lake Alan Henry<\/a> this weekend when <a href=\"http:\/\/texastailchaser.com\/blogger\/\">Steve Miller<\/a> called me up on a spur-of-the-moment fishing trip.  This was the first trip to this lake for both of us. He has summed up the trip well in his blog so you can read more about that there.  Steve is a great fisherman with plenty of experience.  Me on the other hand, I am lucky if I ever catch anything, I just like to get out there for the peace and quiet and feed the fish expensive bait. This was a chance for Steve to teach me a thing or two about artificial bait fishing.  I caught my first ever bass fish (2 smaller ones) and a couple of crazy perch, but it was fun!  Steve did quite a bit better on the bass than I did however.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/upload.php?style=inline&amp;tab=browse-all&amp;post_id=-1188858795&amp;action=view&amp;ID=32\" id=\"file-link-32\" title=\"Steve Miller sports a fish at Lake Allen Henry\" class=\"file-link image\">  <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/lahsteve1.jpg\" title=\"Steve Miller sports a fish at Lake Allen Henry\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/lahsteve1.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Miller sports a fish at Lake Allen Henry\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also got in a lot of great hiking and exploring some back roads and hiking trails and found some really cool hidden away spots. One of our favorites was this huge cliff that dropped almost straight down into the water. I don&#8217;t know how high it was, but it was definitely HIGH!  This is a view of it from the side&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/lah2.jpg\" title=\"The Cliff at Lake Alan Henry\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/lah2.jpg\" alt=\"The Cliff at Lake Alan Henry\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this was the view&#8230;STRAIGHT DOWN!  Would have gotten a nasty scratch from falling off that!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/lah3.jpg\" title=\"The Cliff at Lake Alan Henry\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/lah3.jpg\" alt=\"The Cliff at Lake Alan Henry\" height=\"354\" width=\"470\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also saw a good sized rattle snake Steve has pics of over on <a href=\"http:\/\/texastailchaser.com\/blogger\/\">his blog<\/a> and in general had a nice relaxing time, despite the 300+ boats coming and going resulting in a huge traffic jam at the boat dock requiring Lubbock Police to sort it out.  Despite the huge crowd, almost everyone was well behaved and we were able to hike back in to some area where most people didn&#8217;t tread.  The nice thing too was we were able to scout out some great fishing spots from the shore that we want to take advantage of on a weekend that isn&#8217;t a holiday and less people around.  There are also some GREAT primitive camping sites that are spaced out enough among the ample vegetation to give you plenty of privacy.  I am looking forward to another trip there despite my attempted recovery today from Ultra Violet Radiation Poisoning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now for something completely different&#8230; In rare form, I unplugged from most of the world for a change and headed down to Lake Alan Henry this weekend when Steve Miller called me up on a spur-of-the-moment fishing trip. This was the first trip to this lake for both of us. He has summed up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-side-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}