Hagfan, yes I have a big happy family also. A wife and 3 lovely daughters ages 2.5, 6, and 8. Matter of fact the older 2 just shot their new Cricket and Red Rider for the 1st time yesterday! And my big plan this year is to get my wife on Pdogs with her new 20 ga. slug gun!!!
The only problem with your plan is, well a couple things. Cast and blast would be great except to my knowledge there are no lakes anywhere near the Pdog spot. If we come back towards my neck of the woods, 2 hrs, there is fishing all over the place. I have 5 good lakes ranging from trout to pike within 20 minutes of my house, several more within an hour.
The summer is the other problem. I gets blazingly hot out there in the summer. Coming from that sand box 90 -100 probably would be no problem for you but it's tough on the wifes and kids. Also Utah in their infinite wisdom caved to the prairie dog huggers about a decade ago. Now there is a closed season from Apr1- June 15 if you care about that, wink, wink.
I went out last year on March 30 and Apr 15 and the puppies are already on the mounds so there are several double and triple opportunities. I had planned on hitting it real hard from about March 5th to Apr 1st and then see how hot it is June 16th.
Any chance you could make it out in the spring? Or if you are going to come that far, come a couple hours farther west for the fishing?
Also,
Bushymonster, I agree with you a little but Hagfan is right. You could really get get the feathers ruffled making a statement like that around here, ESPECIALLY on THIS post. I have thought for a long time that a Political Forum would be a nice addition though, anybody else up for it??? Maybe somebody should PM Brian or the Glen(n)s. ???