Thread: Old Sardis Photos

Originally Posted by Get-th-dm-net

I always thought the lakes changed because the water being on the timber caused the timber to die. That's an interesting point though never thought of it that way. My step dad talks about having to lay down in the boat to get around back in the late 70's early 80's around Wyatt's crossing.

Yep. Yep. Yep. Go to HWY 7 bridge and look out at all the buck brush on the side of the river. It was pretty much like that. I miss those days of fishing that stuff. That stuff was in the middle of the lake. I remember one year the water was so clear, we'd drop down 10-15 feet thru one of those bushes and you could see the fish hit and fight as we brought them up. Only issue was the water was so clear, the bass were hitting a lot more than crappie. Many moons ago with my dad. I was just a youngster but still remember like yesterday.

I remember the drive through the lower lake area. You could turn into the Sleepy Bend campground and drive the lake front to the spillway. Some of the road is still there, and some has been removed.
Mom had a lot of old pictures, I'll have to see who has them.

Originally Posted by Get-th-dm-net

I always thought the lakes changed because the water being on the timber caused the timber to die. That's an interesting point though never thought of it that way. My step dad talks about having to lay down in the boat to get around back in the late 70's early 80's around Wyatt's crossing.

Yep, back in late 70's early 80's if you didn't know your way around you could get lost as last years Easter egg. I have fished all that buck brush 27458 is talking about. Almost a complete wall across the lake. Just a few openings to get a boat through. All the standing timber by Holiday was just a wall across there. Every tree this time of year had 3-4 boards nailed to them with a yo-yo on each end. Coming up the lake as the sun came up it looked like a light show with sun reflecting off them.

Originally Posted by cray

Yep, back in late 70's early 80's if you didn't know your way around you could get lost as last years Easter egg. I have fished all that buck brush 27458 is talking about. Almost a complete wall across the lake. Just a few openings to get a boat through. All the standing timber by Holiday was just a wall across there. Every tree this time of year had 3-4 boards nailed to them with a yo-yo on each end. Coming up the lake as the sun came up it looked like a light show with sun reflecting off them.

I remember all the yo yo boards up at Piney. That timber was full of em.


BRM

What gets me about this thread is out of 14 replies there has only been 1 photo produced.. Seems folks had a problem carrying around an expensive Polaroid camera on the water and snapping pictures back in the day... but now days we got no problem toting around $600 - $700 cell phones with cameras and snapping photos all day long. I imagine they is a good many at the bottom of the lakes right now to prove it.. but no Polaroid cameras

Originally Posted by Rees Guide

Wish I had some of Grenada, it's amazing at the changes over the years.

The office at Enid has lots of photos . Bet they all do . Call the office and ask for interpretive ranger ,they can help you find some from the ground work till now .

In my case..the problem was not carrying a camera, but paying for film developing..things were different back then..pictures were for special occasions only around my house..