Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Fall colors

I took this over a month ago, no fall colors here, lots of swamp donkeys though.

Wood - You are now so far north it is a wonder that trees even grow there.

I can't help myself..here are some more from Glade Top, taken yesterday.

And of course who can resist a fall sunset?

Wow!

Awesome, Chris! Where in Mo. are you? Near Ar? What reservoir is nearest? We went thru a few yrs. ago in late Oct. It was beautiful, but there was a very windy storm the week before and it blew off lots of leaves.

NWW,

Beautiful, simply beautiful...and reminds me of my grandparents place in the Ozarks....complete with fire lookout towers.

Burgermeister, yep I'm near Arkansas. Just 30 miles down the road to the line. I'm in the SW of the state just north of Branson and east of Springfield. I think this year has been the best for all the colors, they are usually gone by now as you said, because of the wind. This will probably be the last of them as we have a rain storm coming in tonight and lots of wind today.

Meadowlark, yep wouldn't be the Ozarks without the fire towers LOL. However they don't use many of them any more, and some they had where you could climb up to the top and look out, but they have stopped that too. I guess coz of all the vandals. Some people ruin it for all of us.

Chris,
My folks used to have a vacation home on Bull Shoals lake, just outside of Peel, Ark. I think we were pretty near to your neck of the woods, eh? It is, indeed, awesome country. It is also many cultures removed from the city life that we were used to...but...we managed to adapt. The biggest issue we had to deal with was timing our 15 minute drive to catch the ferry that crosses the water to the "wet county" on the other side. Precision timing offered bounteous, refreshing reward.

Brettski, Yep you were very close to my neck of the woods and I have crossed on the Toad Suck (actual name of a town in Ark.) Ferry or Browns Ferry many times.
Was the Ferry near Protem Mo.?
Burger we have many Lakes near by, Bull Shoals,Tannycomo and Table Rock and North Fork is one in Ark. We are within an hour of any of them.

In these pics you can see the Boston Mountains in Ark.






Here are a few more of Glade Top.

Yep, Protem was a nearby town. The ferry was on Hwy 125. We kept our little boat at the 125 boat dock. Our place was on a small cove in a land subdivision called Wood's Cove. At the time, there were only a couple of homes right on the water. That was back in the 70's. I'll bet it's pretty populated by now.
HA!...right on the water. More like 100 feet back most of the time to stay off the government buffer, then another 100 feet to the house. That entire White River System is awesome.

Brettski, yes it is and yup thats the same Ferry. They used to have 2 but they have shut one down, the one on 125 is the last of its breed. Yeah I would imagine that if you were there today you would see a different world from the 70's. I started coming to the Ozarks back then and moved here in "82" It has changed a lot since then esp. Branson. Its like going to Las Vegas now all concrete and billboards.

NWW,

Because my grandparents lived nearby, I knew Branson before it became a tourist area. Silver Dollar City consisted only of the main square and the cave was the main attraction. The change is really incredible.

I had the good fortune to be one of the earliest people to fish Table Rock Lake. It was an incredible fishing lake back then. We used a new lure that many said would never catch LMB. It was called a plastic worm.

I try to get back to the Norfork and White rivers for trout fishing a couple of times a year and consider every trip a blessing. You are fortunate to live in such a great area.

A interstate football matchup between Toad Suck and Mule Jail might provide some real Fall color.

ML, was it a grape(purple) worm with multiple hooks and fishing line running thru it...and, oh yea, a propeller on the nose? Maybe you're too young to remember that one.

BM, that almost sounds like a plow jockey.

Theo -- man you don't want to be anywhere near Mule Jail on Halloween. That place is a true swamp with all the spooky things that go with it. Owls , cats , gators , snakes , spiders , ghosts of soldiers and mules past , quicksand, old creepy trees with Spanish moss , swamp gas fires , wolf like dogs ,gator gar ,bowfin ,eels , giant snapping turtles , leeches , bats -- well you get the idea.

Sunil, I looked up the 'plow jockey' and it does look similar to the old ones. Didn't know they still made worms with several hooks and line. The original types had a prop in front with a bead on either side. Killer in a pond.

Close, very close....it was a red worm but everything else you said was right on the money....even had some beads just behind the prop. We would take off those beads and the prop and fishing line and re-rig it to what is now called "Texas" style. Man, those Table Rock bass had never seen such a lure and we just tore them up day after day.

Now THAT would be interesting!! Bubba could be the Ref. LMAO
No joke tho, the last time I was on the Ferry the guy running it was named Bubba, and he represented it well. LOL

The Ferry

Man oh man, I made that trip quite a number of times, the trunk loaded with Coors. We would pop open #1 as soon as we got onto the ferry. I remember the old tug with the nose of the bow attached to a 180 degree hinge on an arm projecting from the center of the ferryboat deck. They would flip the boat 180 degrees after each pass to push it back to the other side. Jeesh, the memories. I'm gonna check my gym shoes on the porch to make sure there ain't no scorpions hidin'.

Those ferry pics (minus the paint , metal and power) remind me of the following to scenes wrt the Ark. River and its tributaries.

1 . Eastwood as Josey Wales and the Missouri boat ride scene "pull Luminal pull" and



Memorable Quotes from
The Outlaw Josey Wales

Jamie: [Josey and Jamie are waiting for the Redlegs to cross the river] They comin'.
[Josie pulls a Sharp's rifle with a early telescopic sight on it from his horse]

Carpetbagger: Do you really think you can shoot all those men down before they shoot you? No, no, Mr. Josey Wales; there is such a thing in this country called justice!

Josey Wales: Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin' in this territory called the Missouri boat ride.
[shoots the rope hauling the ferry across the river]


2. The Duke as Rooster Cogburn and the run away nitro ferry .

FAQ about the Hwy 125 Peel Ferry
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...even the Toad Suck Ferry gets honorable mention. (that just doesn't sound right)

"In my line of work, you got to be able to sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic, or Dixie, equally well, depending on present company that is."