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Post by worksforme2 on Feb 18, 2022 8:01:42 GMT -5
For many males and for me this was the place I 1st began hunting,... hellgrammites and crayfish were my early game.... Attachments:
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Post by Handy on Feb 19, 2022 1:01:04 GMT -5
I remember the original Pay Station too. My water was deeper and we played sneaking up on an imagined opposition by walking in the creek instead of the open field. On smaller streams a small dam made from local rocks was the common thing to do.
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Post by ironhamster on Feb 20, 2022 2:38:18 GMT -5
We built small clay dams that collapsed easily, until an older engineering minded kid taught us better ways. Then, we had a swimming hole from the time it filled up until yet other kids would break it down.
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Post by worksforme2 on Feb 20, 2022 6:47:13 GMT -5
We built small clay dams that collapsed easily, until an older engineering minded kid taught us better ways. Then, we had a swimming hole from the time it filled up until yet other kids would break it down. My friends and I often dammed the creek and created a swimming hole, but it was always short lived. The creek quickly overflowed the dam and soon eroded it to the state where it would collapse. |
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Post by greatcoastal on Feb 20, 2022 7:17:58 GMT -5
We would have flat stone skipping contests, to see who could skip their stone all the way across the river. I remember making our own fishing net with, a coat-hanger, the yellow net that came with the Thanksgiving turkey, tape, wire, and an old broom stick. We would catch turtles, frogs, and tadpoles. Then I'd bring them home in a bucket to show my mom,and return them to the river.
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Post by ironhamster on Feb 21, 2022 4:11:39 GMT -5
We built small clay dams that collapsed easily, until an older engineering minded kid taught us better ways. Then, we had a swimming hole from the time it filled up until yet other kids would break it down. My friends and I often dammed the creek and created a swimming hole, but it was always short lived. The creek quickly overflowed the dam and soon eroded it to the state where it would collapse. The big engineering breakthrough was using a piece of plywood for the spillway. That kept the erosion to a minimum. |
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Post by worksforme2 on Feb 22, 2022 13:51:52 GMT -5
Talking with a male cousin who also hunted hellgrammites/crayfish and damned the creek. He loved your plywood engineering breakthrough ....
Know what a hellgrammite is?....I do
EDIT: To save a few people some time I believe a hellgrammite is the Aquatic larval stage of the Dopler Fly.
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Post by mirrororchid on Feb 22, 2022 20:38:32 GMT -5
For many males and for me this was the place I 1st began hunting,... hellgrammites and crayfish were my early game.... Wonder how many ladies liked this. It might not just be guys, but my sister was not into stacking rocks in the water. The creek I played in was paved with concrete. Killjoys. |
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