Lake: Fishing, mud-flinging pick up
By TOOTSIE SNELLING
Marion County Park & Lake Reporter
Another beautiful Monday! Tomorrow, when it's my day off, I bet it will be windy. We did get some rain over the weekend, but not near enough.
Dale and I traveled to Breckenridge, Mo., over the weekend to visit my sister and husband, Regina and Ed Prothman, and to help them get ready for their farm auction held Saturday.
Friday was a cool and cloudy day, but it started raining at 4 a.m. Saturday morning and didn't quit until about 4 p.m. Must have rained three inches there — terrible day for a sale. Most of the sale was held inside the barn or old house. We were hoping the whole time that we were getting that much rain here, but didn't. We even had a tornado warning there at 6 p.m., but it blew over with just a few sprinkles and no storm.
We returned home Sunday afternoon and enjoyed the ride through the Flint Hills with the beautiful green pastures. They still were doing some range burning (Indians talking to each other as we call it). If you haven't been out for a ride to see the emerald green pastures, do it soon, they are breath-taking. Next it will be the beautiful prairie flowers. We also stopped in Overbrook to visit another sister and her husband, Virginia and Dick Gettinger. We ate supper with them and had a nice visit.
I saw my first Monarch butterfly last week in Chase County. The next day there was an article about them in the Wichita paper. It said the old ones were coming through now and would probably die and the younger ones would follow in a few weeks. I was really surprised to see one, as I thought it was too cool here yet.
Fishing was good over the weekend. They still are catching channel cat, some walleye, lots of small wipers on chicken liver and lures, and there were a few reports of nice crappie taken next to the shore line. The water temperature is still 64 degrees, but it will be inching upwards with warmer days. Didn't hear any reports on the walleye or white bass at the reservoir.
Fishing in the heated dock is still good on channel cat and crappie.
We have a bicycle here that was left on someone's property a couple of weeks ago. We thought someone would come by for it by now. If you are missing one, give us a name and description of it, and if, it's close, it's yours.
We continue to be amazed at the people who use and misuse the shower/restroom facility. We can't believe the things that go on there. From taking things, to filling the stools with rolls of toilet paper. I don't see what's funny in that. A couple of weeks ago, some youngsters that had been four-wheeling and must have gotten stuck and were covered with mud from head to toe, decided to wash off here before going home. They had mud all over the sidewalks, inside on the sinks, walls, ceilings, showers, and shower curtains. Dale just happen to catch them and made them clean it up. It took them about an hour to scrub it all off. He asked them if they would have gone home and made such a mess? They confessed they wouldn't have. I had to wash the shower curtains and all the mud stains still didn't come out, but it's better than they were. Such is life in a public place!
Don't forget Chat and Dine this Saturday night.
