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I'm always telling folks how Sardis "used" to look. I'd love to have some old photos of Sardis from Holiday lodge looking east or from Wyatt's crossing or other areas east of Holiday lodge. I can recall having to stay in the river at Wyatt's just to find the way out to the lake to fish and getting lost!
If anyone has any old photos they could post or links to some, I think it would be cool to share! :)
Wish I had some of Grenada, it's amazing at the changes over the years.Quote:
Originally Posted by 27458
yes sir, it would be interesting to see any old photos of those lakes. i can recall every tree at Piney Point at Sardis having Yo Yo's attached to them. be hard pressed to even catch many crappie around piney point now near where all the Yo Yo's were. I think the trees dying has something to do with it. tobey tuby used to be the go to spot. now, rarely anything. amazing how much the lake has changed and how the fish act.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rees Guide
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I'd like to have one of all the Big 4.
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With the Corp pulling the water off the timber and leaving it high and dry to rot has not helped. I remember when you could get lost on Sardis and Grenada.
Have one of Enid when " Bean creek " was solid timber .Will try to dig it out and post . :fish
First bass tournament I fished on Enid in 1974...timber had begun falling in Bean creek...it was jammed up so far out, you could not get a lure to the bank...Wore the paint off a couple of spinner baits that day....
The only pic I could find was from 1999. This is right out in front of the main ramp at Hurricane.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...c3ed7b47dd.png
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That photo is awesome....thanks for sharing
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Br529
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Get-th-dm-net
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Get-th-dm-net
I remember all the yo yo boards up at Piney. That timber was full of em.Quote:
Originally Posted by cray
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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 :Rofl
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 .Quote:
Originally Posted by Rees Guide
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..
Yep, a 5 to $10 Instamatic, 1 to $5 for film and about $10 to get it developed, depending on the number of frames per roll. Walgreen's was good about having coupons for free film with developing or double prints.