On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:53:53 -0400, "jamesgangnc"
wrote:

"DownTime" wrote in message
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Larry wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in
:

Well, after 17 hours, $475 worth of gas, having to buy a small rain
forest to make up for all the expelled carbon, we're comfortably
ensconsed in Lexington, SC after a 17 hour ride dragging my Ranger
down the inland route.

Now, on to two weeks of fishing, fishing and more fishing.

Plus the occasional side trip to keep SWMBO happy.

Note to all drivers in Virginia - past, present and future.

YOU SUCK!!!


If you go into lake Marion and Moultrie.....REMEMBER THE STUMP FARMS!

Even if the stumps don't get you....there are huge waterlogged logs
running through both lakes at any depth that USED to be chained down to
the bottom when the lakes were formed....

The fishing is great, though....so they put up with it.

What possible and hopefully logical answer can tell me why anyone in their
right mind would chain a log to the bottom of a lake?

Fish attractor.

I swear I think all the lakes in the south east have stump fields. Both our
local lakes here in Raleigh have areas where they left trees standing that
have long since rotted off at the water line. I know Hartwell and Kerr both
have stumps as well.

All artificial lakes in wooded country have stump fields. Wisdom
around the local Iowa lake is that you need three props, one on the
boat, one in the boat, one in the shop getting welded and ground.
Props are always easy to remove. They are never on there long enough
to get sticky. As for waterline, these Iowa lakes are for flood
control and vary widely in depth from time to time.

Casady