Good old cold springs . Used to be the place you could drive out and dump a body. Or leave a body. They haven't found one out there in years, but people have still died out there it no playground thats for sure. It's a resivoir for irrigation and it's old, so when the water is low, the silt is high yocould get stuck in muck mud up to your waste and not be able to get yourself out. I sunk to my crotch one neg in the mud one leg out thats hoe patchy it is one step good the next like wet cement. Its a good thing i was not alonethat silt just flows into every airhole or empty space it can find fast and it had gone down into my hip wader as fasrt as i sunk cemenring my leg in the wader in the silti had to be pulled ot buy 2 grown men and then we had to get my wader out. . So be careful it's like pockets of quicksand. Not to mention all the fishhooks, and i mean massive amounts of fishhooks . People but out chum lines strung out with beer cans . And then loose there hole line cause beeer cans are no match foe a good size catfish or tw smallones for that matter and the stick or the whatever they have them tied to gives and there goes half a dozen barbed hooks. The water rises and lowers so fast they sometimes get lost in the muck, so if you're out there walking along the shoreline
A. Stay in the dry areas
and
B. If you see a beer can just know there may be a hook chances are good that there will be a hook on a line pretty close but could be 3 feet of line or 6feet all curled up just close if the shore is wer it might be a few inches down and you could hook yourslf when the sink . If it's dry, it could be waiting for your bare foot to dig in a little and cat h your toes. I would never let my kids dig out there if i did take them down there(i never took my young kids down there) its way too dangerious
For small boating, it is great for fishing. You can catch Perch, bluegill,crappy, small, and big mouth bass. I dont remember catching any trout out of there, but we didn't go there for trout. We fish among the flooded treetops for crappy. . It does not have a gate at night, so I wouldn't want to go late. It still has a bad reputation.
On a diff note this is just a flas ftom the past when you used to be able to get in thru the back side gate you could drive over the burm and you could get to the water pipe that sucked the water uot for irrigation. You used to be able to walk out on the rickety oldwooden planked walkway where just out of a movie set it was missing boards sone were only half boards some looked like the would break if you steped on them. Anyhow, we would walk one at a time trying to stay to the sides where there was a small lip of metal that held the board in place. Some pieces were even at an angle. It was dangerous. I can tell you now that im a grown-up thinking about it. we were young and dumd thou i think i was just 21 last I went out there. Still young and dumb . Why did we do this, and when i say we, I mean not just me and my friends but many many kids and mybe grown kids. It was because of the names and the sayings and the love you forevers that had been scratched into the paint on all the metel tresses for 50 years or so, and we did this 30+ years ago. They should take that down that old rickety thing and didsplay it at town hall or the library in Hermiston. I think a lot of people would like to see that again i would. I dont even know if it's still there that the back gate has been closed to the public for 30 yrs. And blocked off from the front ever sense those people drowned at the spillway. You can't even walk back there. Well youcan but it's posted. dont do it,...
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