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Check Out our 2025 Fishing Tournaments
With the return of the 2025 season - we are excited about some of the best fishing tournaments in Central Kentucky! Including the comeback of a favorite - The TRIFECTA Series!
L.B. Herrington: A Beginning
2025: CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF LAKE LIFE
In 1784, in John Filson's book Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucky (originally spelled Kentucke), we find the first telling of explorations by Colonel Daniel Boone, who wrote about the Dick's (later to become Dix) River, "the river affords many excellent mill seats and will have plenty of water in the driest seasons." Sugar cane in our region was plentiful, and there were many water-driven grist mills built along the river over the years. But, it was not until 140 years later that a water-driven mill of another kind, one that would generate electricity, was built. The Dix Dam Hydro-Electric Station was an industrial plant that the great pioneers of early Kentucky could not have even dream ...
Would you like to join our Volunteer Search & rescue?
This year we are organizing local residents and weekend warriors to train for the statistically "inevitable" job of helping local law enforcement in an emergency.
Events on & Around the Area: Coming Up in 2025!
Get a look at what's happening in the night sky this month .
Herrington Nights in April
Here are the exact dates and times for the key lunar phases in March 2025:
First Quarter Moon: April 5, 02:15 GMT (April 4, 10:15 p.m. EDT)
Full Moon: April 13, 00:22 GMT (April 12, 8:22 p.m. EDT)
Last Quarter Moon: April 21, 01:35 GMT (April 20, 9:35 p.m. EDT)
New Moon: April 27, 19:31 GMT (3:31 p.m. EDT)
- April 1: Occultation of the Pleiades (mag 1.2) 🌟; Moon near Uranus (mag 5.8)
- April 2: Moon near Jupiter (mag -2.1), Aldebaran (mag 0.9)
- April 3: Mars (mag 0.5) near Pollux (mag 1.2)
- April 4: Moon near Mars (mag 0.5), Pollux (mag 1.2)
- April 5: First Quarter Moon
- April 6: Moon near Beehive Cluster (mag 3.1); Mercury ends retrograde motion
- April 8: Moon near Regulus (mag 1.4)
- April 10: Mercury (mag 1.1) near Saturn (mag 1.2); Venus ends retrograde motion
- April 13: Full Moon 🌟; occultation of Spica (mag 1.0)
- April 16: Occultation of Antares (mag 1.1); Mercury (mag 0.6) near Neptune (mag 7.9)
- April 17: Alignment of Venus (mag -4.7), Saturn (mag 1.2), Mercury (mag 0.5), and Neptune (mag 7.9) 🌟
- April 21: Mercury at greatest elongation 🌟; Last Quarter Moon
- April 22: April Lyrids’ peak (ZHR = 18) 🌟
- April 23: Pi Puppids’ peak (variable ZHR)
- April 25: Moon near Venus (mag -4.8), Mercury (mag 0.2), Saturn (mag 1.2), Neptune (mag 7.9)
- April 27: Venus at greatest brilliancy (mag -4.8) 🌟; New Moon
- April 28: Venus (mag -4.7) near Saturn (mag 1.2)
- April 29: Moon near Aldebaran (mag 0.9), Pleiades (mag 1.2), Uranus (mag 5.8)
- April 30: Moon near Jupiter (mag -2.0)
*The highlighted events are the most important events of the month.
About magnitude: the faintest magnitude visible to the naked eye in cities with moderate light pollution (e.g., New York City) is about 4. The limiting magnitude of an optical device depends on its specification but rarely exceeds 11.
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40 Year Fishing Veteran Les Hatton Gives Us The Info Going Into April!
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