Shenandoah near Front Royal

[basscrusher]

Anyone have any info on Eastham park?  Wondering if if gets super crowded, has any good shoreline access/wading areas (already heard it has boat launch), or if it is dominated by yahoos.  Thanks in advance.

[Choporoz]

I've taken canoes and kayaks out from there, but never waded.  It certainly does get crowded on weekends since it is one of the primary float access points on South Fork.   I guess that doesn't help you much...sorry.  If I was going to a primary launch to wade, I'd probably go to State Park or Low Water Bridge.  I've seen people wading a good ways out from each of those.  I don't know how to get to it from shore, but there's a spot in the SP where tubes take out - quite a bit up from the launch; there's great wade-fishing from there....we stop there some times and have had good luck.

[basscrusher]

That helps some, so thanks.  I might need to take another look at low Water Bridge.  Although, according to one thing I read, what I thought was low water bridge might not be it, after all.

[Choporoz]

It's in Bentonville, right by Downriver Canoe.

38.840147,-78.330512

[basscrusher]

Thanks for posting those coordinates. My hunch was right.  The place I thought was low water bridge is actually something else.  It looks almost exactly the same (super low to the water, etc) but is a bit north of the "real" Low Water Bridge.  Hopefully in the next few weekends I'll go scout the area around Bentonville, including the state park.  Looking on google maps, I can't seem to find a good place to park and venture from, but hopefully my recon will reveal something.

So far I've resisted getting a kayak, mainly because it would make my Bass Raider less practical, but maybe it's time I reconsider...