Timeliner
Contributor
Unlike some other folks I dashed out to the lake today while the after church crowd was at Lubys Cafeteria and the fishermen were just packing up to head home before familys got back from Lubys Cafeteria to celebrate Mothers Day.
A Park Ranger stopped to chit-chat and we discussed the recent rise in the lake level, the spawning of the catfish and our shared optimism about Summer with a full lake for a change. Some teenagers came over while I geared up and wanted to know if I ever found any unexploded ordinance in the lake. ( No ) It was a testing ground for the military years ago and there is still some chance of finding a live round or two in the area. They wanted to know all about how much it cost to be a diver. I told them it was like buying a boat and you can spend a little or as much as you want, or way more then you ever would have believed.
Lake Pat Mayse
15 minutes away from Paris ~ Little or no entry fees and best of all...
The Diving Really Sucks Too
It is pretty and quite fun to camp, swim, go boating and jet-ski on. It appears to have clear water but its a mud bottom lake. I think if there were rocks along the bottom then there could be a bit of drama to the dive. Of course mud is softer and not at all painful to plow into when the Vis. Is poor (unlike rocks) There are many rocks along the dam.
Of course there are fisherman and all that that implies.
I planned a East out ~ West back dive along the bottom towards the middle of the lake near the dam.
I was surprised to find the visibility at around 15 and once I reached the thermo. at 17 feet the visibility opened up to between 18 and 25
( INCHES ).
The green glow from the surface and Sunshine was detectable most of the time except in the deepest parts of the dive. To define anything a light was necessary below 10 feet.
61 degrees and constant below 30 feet deep and not a single fish the whole dive.
No fish now thats a first ! I bet they were there I just couldnt see them.
34 feet deep was all I found along with a 1/8 in. nylon line running North /South in the middle of the lake. ( trot line probably)
I planned to surface, and did, at 45 minutes and was on my compass heading about 1/3 mile out in the middle of the lake and there was nobody anywhere in sight. Just Me.
It was a nice vantage point to grab a quick reference and head on back. I made this just a straight compass run at 20 feet. I didnt see the bottom or anything for 27 minutes then saw the bottom and surfaced 10 fin kicks from my dive flag.
I know it sounds like a total crap dive and the vis. was as bad or worse then the Paris Underground Tunnels but then, I think every dive is Amazing !!
Time To Call My Mom
A Park Ranger stopped to chit-chat and we discussed the recent rise in the lake level, the spawning of the catfish and our shared optimism about Summer with a full lake for a change. Some teenagers came over while I geared up and wanted to know if I ever found any unexploded ordinance in the lake. ( No ) It was a testing ground for the military years ago and there is still some chance of finding a live round or two in the area. They wanted to know all about how much it cost to be a diver. I told them it was like buying a boat and you can spend a little or as much as you want, or way more then you ever would have believed.
Lake Pat Mayse
15 minutes away from Paris ~ Little or no entry fees and best of all...
The Diving Really Sucks Too
It is pretty and quite fun to camp, swim, go boating and jet-ski on. It appears to have clear water but its a mud bottom lake. I think if there were rocks along the bottom then there could be a bit of drama to the dive. Of course mud is softer and not at all painful to plow into when the Vis. Is poor (unlike rocks) There are many rocks along the dam.
Of course there are fisherman and all that that implies.
I planned a East out ~ West back dive along the bottom towards the middle of the lake near the dam.
I was surprised to find the visibility at around 15 and once I reached the thermo. at 17 feet the visibility opened up to between 18 and 25
( INCHES ).
The green glow from the surface and Sunshine was detectable most of the time except in the deepest parts of the dive. To define anything a light was necessary below 10 feet.
61 degrees and constant below 30 feet deep and not a single fish the whole dive.
No fish now thats a first ! I bet they were there I just couldnt see them.
34 feet deep was all I found along with a 1/8 in. nylon line running North /South in the middle of the lake. ( trot line probably)
I planned to surface, and did, at 45 minutes and was on my compass heading about 1/3 mile out in the middle of the lake and there was nobody anywhere in sight. Just Me.
It was a nice vantage point to grab a quick reference and head on back. I made this just a straight compass run at 20 feet. I didnt see the bottom or anything for 27 minutes then saw the bottom and surfaced 10 fin kicks from my dive flag.
I know it sounds like a total crap dive and the vis. was as bad or worse then the Paris Underground Tunnels but then, I think every dive is Amazing !!
Time To Call My Mom
