05-28-2004, 09:54 PM
Oh, those were the days. Shot my first duck out there 20 years ago. Shot my first Carp with a bow out there just a couple of years before that. Got bit on the finger by a field mouse on the same day. I still have the scar. I sat down and put my hand behind me to lean on, and whammo. I had put my hand right on the mouse. The mouse was launched into the stratosphere on a bent arrow from a 75lb. bow.
It didn't help that a lot of the farmers out there gave up on farming and sold the land off to developers. I used to know a couple hundred people that lived in Lake Shore, now most of them have moved and the few thousand that live there now just don't seem to be as interested in farming the land as just owning it, or worse, selling it.
If you are wondering about what happened to that land in particular, just think about it. When did it start to go downhill? Just about the time the dikes were built along I-15 from the flooding about 15 years ago? It was at that time that many efforts were made to keep the flooding from happening again that have forever changed the Southern layout of Utah Lake. I don't recall everything done, but a lot of water was drawn out early in the year to avoid the flooding for a number of years. I don't know what percentage of waht we have now was caused by the hurried judgement during those few years, but I do know that the lake was deeper, and cleaner, even just 5 years before those dikes showed up. Hmmm
NOW BADFISH,,,,,
Dang, man! You are almost as sick as I am. LMAO!!!!!
Sounds like a great place for all of us "freaks" to try out our fully automatic arms. Much more fun than a hammer[angelic]
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It didn't help that a lot of the farmers out there gave up on farming and sold the land off to developers. I used to know a couple hundred people that lived in Lake Shore, now most of them have moved and the few thousand that live there now just don't seem to be as interested in farming the land as just owning it, or worse, selling it.
If you are wondering about what happened to that land in particular, just think about it. When did it start to go downhill? Just about the time the dikes were built along I-15 from the flooding about 15 years ago? It was at that time that many efforts were made to keep the flooding from happening again that have forever changed the Southern layout of Utah Lake. I don't recall everything done, but a lot of water was drawn out early in the year to avoid the flooding for a number of years. I don't know what percentage of waht we have now was caused by the hurried judgement during those few years, but I do know that the lake was deeper, and cleaner, even just 5 years before those dikes showed up. Hmmm
NOW BADFISH,,,,,
Dang, man! You are almost as sick as I am. LMAO!!!!!
Sounds like a great place for all of us "freaks" to try out our fully automatic arms. Much more fun than a hammer[angelic]
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