You and your family can have your cake and eat it too by heading out to a lodge for a rustic vacation, while at the same time retaining certain vital amenities. If you like to fish, many lodges offer fishing ponds so that you can engage in this more rustic activity as well, without giving up a comfortable bed and electricity. Your spouse and kids, if they’d rather not fish, can engage in other activities while you hang out at the well stocked fishing ponds. Doesn’t that sound better than a frantic, touristy holiday at some big hotel in the middle of a smoggy city?

The opportunity to vacation at such a lodge is available all over the country, in mountains, valleys and forests in virtually every state, and fishing ponds are frequently among the enticements offered to potential customers. The ponds are often stocked with many types of fish, and usually the lodge provides all the equipment needed to fish them. If other family members prefer hiking, swimming or other types of activities, then those will be available too. But fishing in these ponds will be a big draw as well.

Depending on an individual lodge’s “catch and release” policy, you may be able to keep the fish from these fishing ponds, or you might have to throw the fish back immediately. You’d need to check this before booking your vacation, especially if keeping and eating the fish yourself is one of your primary reasons for fishing. Those lodges and resorts that allow people to keep the fish often provide gutting and cleaning areas as well, so residents don’t need to smell up their suites. But good fish management would probably require that you make a record of how many fish you catch, at the very least, so the lodge can restock properly.

It’s possible that in addition to the lodge’s private fishing ponds, which wouldn’t require you to get a fishing license, you might also want to fish in some nearby ponds and lakes. If they aren’t privately owned, that might bring in the licensing requirements, but the lodge management can supply such details when you book your vacation. Whatever your wishes, having a holiday in a location like this might be just what your family needs, to relax without a lot of hassle, and go home refreshed when the vacation is over.

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