Briery Creek Lake was an interesting lake to fish. It was a man made lake, flooded as it, with trailed bulldozed thru the acreage to create deepwater channels and marked on the maps of the impoundment... then the project was delayed and the cleared passages began to become overgrown again. Contracts were in development to reclear the proposed channels and they flooded the area. MOST of the standing timber was left standing. You might be able to see in some of the pictures that the trees "Drowned" and the strumps are at or just below the water line. This is NOT a lake for fast moving boats. It was not unusual to hear a whining motor scream when the boat ran up on a stump and the motor came OUT of the water.
NEW Kayakers to the lake had to be cautioned NOT to paddle fast, as you could hit a submerged stump and roll, or worse, have the nose of the kayak ride up on a small stump and the nose of the stump run the length of the hull until it found a scupper.
The small diameter stump could poke up thru the scupper holes in the hull and the kayaker was trapped without help from a second party to allow the kayak to be lifted OFF the stump.
Power boats driven UP onto stumps could be aided by kayakers by paddling a line over to another stump allowing the boat to be pulled backward off the stump by the people ON the boat, or they could be towed off by another boat, as long as the stump hadn't punctured the hull.
Trophy Bass lived in the lake, so follow the rules and it was worth the risk. For kayakers, it was a very safe place the fish, NO fast moving powerboats.
The first sunset pic, I took a dozen shots, trying to catch the perfect alignment. I managed to get a good one. I wanted the tree silhouetted and the sun balanced on the tree. Close enough.
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The second one, I just had the camera, God provided the colors.
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I've often told folks you just need a camera, an eye for the shot, and luck.
Eh... we also did a lot of night fishing, so no worries.
