Day: November 19, 2019
It would seem that the dispute is over the road at the bottom where Canyon Drive swings north at the. Gravel pit. That area is being called private property. I don’t think that will hold. You’ll have to blow up these letters to read them.
Was This Bass From Big Bass Lake or An Aquarium?
Some say bass this big can’t be caught in Big Bass Lake anymore and others have a difficult time finding any bass in the lake at all. Young Keifer here isn’t saying but word has it that his aquarium provides him great fishing pleasure.
Maybe some of our readers, or those that live around Big Bass Lake, can enlighten us? How big are the fish you’re catching on the lake? Share with us your victories as well as about those big one’s that got away! Maybe all you’re catching are mosquito bites?
And what is the best location to fish around Big Bass Lake? What kind of fish most attaches itself to your line? If you’re having trouble thinking of answers perhaps you might want to visit Keifer’s aquarium? Or you might even want to tell us to kiss your “bass”?
Lake County Michigan Fantastic Sale !!
Lake County, Michigan, has a fantastic sale going on this month at one of its supermarkets. Check this out!
10 Pounds of Sugar for 42 Cents
Coffee- 19 Cents a Pound. That ought to “perk” you up!
Toilet Paper- 6 Rolls for 25 cents
Tall Cans of Milk for 33 cents
3 Pounds of Steak for 25 cents total0
Butter- 2 Pounds for 33 cents
Sliced Bacon for 10 cents a pound
Pork Roast is a little higher for 60 cents a pound
Lard- 4 Pounds for 19 cents
Macaroni- 10 packages for 39 cents
What a fantastic sale! Of course this sale was held in December of 1933 but then maybe one of you has a time machine so that you can avail yourselves of these great prices?
Maximum Usage of a Rowboat
I really enjoyed our metallic rowboat that we used on our camping trips to our property on Big Bass Lake. It was used upside down as a diving platform and upside up for just plain rowing or fishing. It was also used for baths near shore once filled with water. It really got a lot of use and was a major component on all our trips but esecialldy ones with he Marion Boys Club.
The boys took turn learning how to row and learned that craft well along our wooded beachfront. I remember well their initial efforts and how hard it was for some of them to row in a fairly straight line. For fun, I would occasionally splash the boys with water when I rowed to cool them off on hot summer days. Then, at night, some of the kids would sit in the rowboat on shore as cool breezes refreshed them.
The rowboat proved instrumental for fishing as some of the boys preferred using the boat over that of fishing on shore. It was in constant use from the time we arrived until the day we left. And, what a time they had with that rowboat!
The Garlati Incident
Bobby Garlati was on a trip with the Marion YMCA to our property and it was the same trip where we took the large but lumbering YMCA tan bus. I had taken another adult supervisor on this trip since over ten boys were coming to our property. Bob Swearinger was the other adult and he was much older than I was at that time with me being in my 20’s.
On a particular hike that Bob led, I had cautioned him to stay to the trails on the right. But when he saw a deer he was talked into following that deer by the boys and he veered off on a trail to the left halfway through our forest and just past the large swamp. That led to a series of small quagmire patches and he had the boys so far strung out that he could not keep track of all of them.
Bobby, not looking where he was going, walked into one of those quagmire patches and begin to sink. He was too horrified to scream at first but fortunately the boy behind him saw what had happened and ran for Bob. While this was happening I was back at camp teaching some other boys how to row the boat.
By the time Bob returned for Bobby he had sunk almost to his waist and Bob yanked him out of that mess but the suction from the quagmire mud ripped Bobby’s shoes, socks, and pants right off of him leaving him naked from the waist down. He didn’t appear that way because he was covered with thick black mud. Bob returned to camp with his charges and it took us three bathes in the lake to get Bobby totally cleaned not to mention smell free. He then rubbed some creme all over his lower parts as there were some red marks from the suction of that mud.
Taking my older supervisor to the side I chastised him for taking the boys into that area and for having them so strung apart. Needless to say he didn’t take out another hike by himself for the remainder of that trip. Bobby actually did not mind the whole thing that much except for the three baths that were needed to remove all that quagmire mud. And thus the Garlati incident came to a welcome and safe close!
Big Bass Lake & Beyond 