Saturday, November 22, 2014

Not a lot new to blog, in fact will be very sparse for a few days as we are flying to Colorado for Thanksgiving. The grandkids (oh....and their parents) will be visiting so we want to take the opportunity to spend some time with them, plus catch up on things like dental, doctor appointments, visit some friends and make a trip up to the cabin for a check out. Flying out of Houston Hobby airport on Monday, then back here on Friday.

Do want to share some info about the Toledo Bend Lake that is outside of our front door. It is a rather unique lake in the way it is put together (so to speak).  The lake is a monster in regards to size, it is 69 miles long, 10 miles wide crating a total surface area of 185,000 acres. Shore line of 1264 miles with average depth of 60 ft (max depth 110). It was built complete in 1969 with total state funding (between Texas and Louisina)....not a federal dollar involved. 3 objectives satisfied....electrical generation, water and recreation. The thing that I find very unique is that the entire lake (as far as what I am told, so far have not personally explored past this little corner) is populated with trees sticking out of the water. That is the first thing that you notice as you cross any of the bridges spanning the enormous land gap, the trees that are sticking out of the water in any direction that you look. Something else noticed rather quickly is the many buoys and water markers that snake as a line through the water. These have been identified to me as water lane markers. There are so many submerged tress (above and below the water line) that the lake actually contains what I refer to as a boat highway. You can safely travel the marked route, other wise you are on your own in avoiding hidden debri. This strange in what you would typically expect to see on a body of water this size.......speed boats, water skiing, jet skis.........not so much. But this is what makes the lake famous for bass fishing. Perfect bass environment. Boats do go off the path of least obstruction obviously, but what I learned forn the boat ride with Dale the other day is that once out side of the markers, slow is the key and if you feel a bump....do not distress, the bost slides off as you continue fishing. Oh.....and no one runs aluminum props......steel baby.
The explination for this is simply that at the time of construction, there was not the time taken to remove the brush prior to filling the lake. It just occurred to me that maybe this is a direct result of state funding vs federal funding????? It does seem rather strange to me that afetr all these years that the water had not cleared of wood through the natural process of decaying. Could it be that submerged items do not rot as quickly due to the lack of oxygen.......that is my theory.

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