Thanks for the kudos. Hopefully in a couple years, but more like four years we'll be pulling big lunker bass out of it. Yardley, I don't really know what distinguishes a pond from a lake. This one is probably eight to ten acres. It's either a big pond or a very small lake. I still haven't come up with a name. I've asked my friends and family but am not satisfied with any of their ideas. And to forstall a lot of ideas from here, I don't want to name it after a buick theme. The most amusing one proposed was Lake Flacid, but I don't think I want to do that one officially. Put this into your memory banks. In two years I'll need fishing pressure on this to keep it healthy. Give me a holler if you want to visit and fish it. The cabin is about 3/4 miles from the lake by ATV. I will follow up with pictures of (two lane) Highway 51 in front of the property. It is straight as a string for several miles in each direction. They are widening it and putting a fresh coat of asphalt on it this summer, as we speak. Today they put the second layer on the northbound side in front of the cabin. Probably will get into the southbound side next week depending on the weather. Gustov is bearing down on us. Yardley, for a dragstrip, all I need to do once they're done is go out and paint two white lines across the highway. No need to build another one on my farmland. A much more thrifty alternative. The traffic volume is so low it's hard to believe, but I55 runs parallel only about 10 miles west, so that's where all the through traffic goes. Best to all.
Just ask Google. Here's the New Hampshire explanation: http://www.des.state.nh.us/factsheets/bb/bb-49.htm Very nice, Mike. Your own piece of paradise. Enjoy!
Lake Mullen. China Lake. Lake Power. Torque Lake. Paradise Lake. Graffitti Lake. Music Lake. Lake Vacation. Lake Pleasure. Pleasure Lake.
Very cool Mike. It is all coming together nicely. I bought some property on a lake/pond/reservoir and really enjoy the weekends getting away when my wife and I are able. Here are some pics for viewing. Its a really small house, but perfect for what we need. The ducks we bought shortly after buying the property, and its fun feeding them every night(when we are there). My mother stays there to make sure nothing happens to the place, and gives her a place to live as well. The view of the lake is from our back door.
Wow, new news out of the farm. I had a solar powered feeder installed for the bream last week. Plan to throw out about 550# of dry food this season. Then yesterday I had 500# of crawfish delivered and put into the lake for the bass. Hopefully by fall some of the more aggressive ones will be pushing three pounds. In the midst of this, my real estate guy called and said the 34 acres north of my farm cabin and west of my hayfield is available. We're working on getting the sale closed next Tuesday. That will bring the total acreage to 182. This pic is two years old just after the dam and lake bed was finished but before it filled up with water. You can see it on the bottom right of the 118 acre section shaped sort of like a tooth. The dam is on the north end. The creek full of beavers zig-zags through diagonally from the top left of center down to the bottom left corner. Having the 34 acre lot will give me access to about 20 or so acres west of the creek that I couldn't really get to before. Plus another 15 acres of hayfields more or less. I can see that this summer some time will be spent building more trails and food plots in the woods. I'm also hiring a new trapper to get rid of the beavers once and for all. Yee Ha.
I'm getting a bulldozer in for three days this weekend to open up some new atv trails west of the creek, and possibly up on the north east end of the property if there's time. More trails equals more mud I suppose, but I'm going to try to have the new trails on as high ground as we can find for the most part so they can be travelled year around. The bream have become accustomed to the feeder. When it goes off and flings food into the water it looks like pirrannas feeding on some poor animal that fell into the water. I couldn't be more pleased how things are moving along. The beaver trapper hasn't caught anything yet that I know of, but he knows his stuff. We'll get them out of there, I'm pretty sure. I'm just about done recuperating from my surgery and should be able to get back onto the tractors soon. Once that's okay I'll be out there working on things, as weather and soil conditions permit.
New trails we dug through the forest are in green. I'll need to take the backhoe in there to clean it up on the outside edges. The dozer was just working in a hurry pushing things around. So I need to clear out the drainage ditches, debris on the edges, etc. Always a work in progress.
First aerial shot I've had of the property with the lake filled up. It's a picture of a poster sized print, so pardon the folds. Some of the new trails are visible as breaks in the tree cover.
Mike, I'm jealous! Nice piece of real estate. 1) Did you come up with a name for the lake yet? 2) What is the rectangle with the X in it? 3) Where is your house on the map? 4) What are the two buildings on the lower left? (house and barn?)
Never came up with a name for the lake that I liked. I just call it "My Lake". Rectangle with X is two acres I don't own. It was deeded to the caretaker about 80 years ago when it was a cattle farm. Now it's heir property and locked up with a lot of people who are part owners. Not for sale. The house (30x60) and barn (60x80) are on the lower left, with access off state highway 51 running along the left boarder. At the longest point, east to west it's about 3800 ft. just shy of 3/4 miles wide. Altogether it's about 177 acres at this stage. No plans for more. I've found that this is plenty to deal with.
