This small reservoir of eleven hundred acres is about 35 minutes from home. It's a water supply for agriculture and I remember when they built the earth and rock dam about thirty or thirty five years ago. Water is piped to a system which goes to various and sundry farms for irrigation so they don't have to pump out ground water. The county seat of this county blossomed from 16k folks to 80k folks in that same thirty five years.

There's talk of raising the dam to convert this to water supply for homes but time will tell on that. Population growth has been rampant in the county served by this dam for farmer's waters.

In the interim, it's stocked with trout every year, has largemouth and smallmouth bass, small perch, etc. to fish for. The lake is divided by buoys into the fast section and the slow section which makes it kind of nice for kayaks, canoes, rowboats, etc and slow moving fishermen like myself. On rare occasions I actually catch a fish. I haven't fished with a barbed hook in thirty years except for salmon and steelhead so lots...uh, well, a few fish get away. Fine with me.

The shore line trees and such is typical of the foothills of the coast range of taller hills that runs pretty much the full length of Oregon.

Based upon trim and how Jaunty sets in the waters at rest, I marked the bottom for waterline and it is now painted with primer and two coats of bottom paint. Working on the rubrails right now, sanding too damn much, but getting closer to hull paint.