Lake Allatoona

A few days ago J wanted to take the boys and go do some fishing, but there's not really any good fishing places around here. I told him we'd go over to Lake Weiss and fish one day.

At some point after that it dawned on me that we live maybe a half hour from our own lake, Allatoona. I don't know why I never remember it's so close. I practically grew up going to Lake Allatoona, we've had family reunions there, went for an EMS family day.

Checking my calendar and seeing J was off on Sunday, I decided to plan a picnic and a day of fishing.
Researching the lake on the internet turned up alot of options. Found out there was a Visitor's Center with a museum and a Dam overlook, and day use parks with picnic areas and grills.

We headed first to the Visitor's Center and checked out the museum, then walked up to the overlook and looked at the Dam and back out over Cooper's Furnace and the Etowah River. Beautiful View.

Then we drove down to the Cooper's Branch Day Use area. I didn't realize it at the time, but we arrived at a great time. There was hardly anyone there. We got our pick of spots right down beside the water. Not long after we got there, within thirty minutes probably, the place started getting more and more crowded.

J got the charcoal burning then they got the poles ready and fished, while I kicked back in my chair and read my book. Aaaahhhh. Lovely, relaxing, day.
When the charcoal was ready J cooked the burgers and dogs. We also had potato salad, cole slaw, chips, chocolate chips cookies for dessert and sweet tea to drink. Yu-u-um!
 

  Unfortunately the fishing wasn't as good as lunch. After lunch we packed up and went to another part of the lake, off the side of the road in a cove, but the fish weren't biting there either.

So we gave up and drove over to Cooper's Furnace park and check it out. It was muy crowded, but we viewed the Furnace and read about it and walked down by the River.