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« on: August 17, 2007, 01:59:34 PM » |
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This event took place in March of this year at one of the primitive camping areas located some distance (~1 mile) east of the main campground where the pad sites, hook-ups, etc. are found.
The family brought their boat and pop-up camper into the location at mid-afternoon and set up the camper then took the jon boat out to set lines and jugs in the creek channel.
At ~23:00 hours the wife woke up her husband when she kept hearing a series of low growls and grunts several yards to the immediate east of their camper. He thought it was a feral hog (rummaging in the recently dressed out fish carcasses) and got up with a flashlight and pistol to investigate. The husband was ~50 yards east of the camper when something screamed at him so loud that he described it as if wind was blowing in his face. He immediately turned off the flashlight and hustled back to the camper told everyone to pack up ASAP and they left the area. This event was initially conveyed to one of our group that works with the gentleman in question and he told Todd they were never going back to Spencer creek.
This also corresponds with a group of deer hunters that were run out of this area ~4 years earlier under similar circumstances.
I've wondered the wisdom of asking people like Tom Biscardi or the BFRO if they'd like to do an "expedition" in that area OR over in the locations Darren Lee, et. al. are allegedly working in Cherokee & Adair counties as I have coordinates to those spots as well?
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Teufelwald
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« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2007, 03:02:38 PM » |
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Wheres this place at....post a map...I'm in MI. and do not know jack about Oklahoma....I am sure glad when I had my encounter that the monster did not roar at me...prolly would have chit my pants....especially since I was only 15-20ft away from it!
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#59
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« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2007, 03:13:48 PM » |
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Wheres this place at....post a map...I'm in MI. and do not know jack about Oklahoma....I am sure glad when I had my encounter that the monster did not roar at me...prolly would have chit my pants....especially since I was only 15-20ft away from it! When I get home I'll post the GPS #'s off the Oklahoma Backroads map. |
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Teufelwald
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« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2007, 03:20:28 PM » |
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I do not know how GPS works.....can't you post a map....now I'm hell with a map and a compass!  |
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« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2007, 04:09:35 PM » |
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I do not know how GPS works.....can't you post a map....now I'm hell with a map and a compass! I'll try but can't guarantee it'll work.  |
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« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2007, 04:17:08 PM » |
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 Here it is. |
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Teufelwald
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« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2007, 04:44:00 PM » |
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The only thing I think I recognize is.."The Lake of the Cherokee's"?
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« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2007, 07:42:36 PM » |
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The only thing I think I recognize is.."The Lake of the Cherokee's"? This place is on Oologah reservoir ~3.5 miles west of Chelsea. |
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Teufelwald
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« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2007, 08:23:59 PM » |
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Dayum....that Oologah reservoir is big!
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« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2007, 09:40:40 PM » |
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Eufaula (~110 miles SSE) is the largest reservoir (~120K surface acres) in the state...~3X bigger than Oologah.
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Teufelwald
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« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2007, 09:48:49 PM » |
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I bet theres a lot of catfish in them reservoirs......what river feeds them?
Prolly built by the army corp of engineers I bet?
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« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2007, 11:49:15 AM » |
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R,
Oologah has some tributary (Kentucky, California & Salt) creeks but it's primary source is the Verdigris river.
Eufaula has the three (3) Canadian (North, South & Deep Fork Arm) rivers as it's main water sources along with a bevy of creeks.
Both are known for catfish & crappie plus Oologah has a decent walleye fishery on the lower section.
COE reservoirs within a 100 mile radius of Tulsa include Oologah, Kaw, Keystone, Skiatook, Birch, Hudson, Ft. Gibson, Webbers Falls, Kerr, Eufaula & the Kerr-McClellan Navigation channel which is a series of low dams/locks on the Verdigris from the port of Catoosa down to three rivers at Muskogee. It looks a lot like the upper Mississippi pools from L&D #1 near Alton, Illinois on up toward the twin cities.
Grand (Lake o' the Cherokee) reservoir is a GRDA (electric co-op) lake.
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Teufelwald
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« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2007, 12:34:29 PM » |
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When was all these reservoirs made....and by whom?
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« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2007, 04:28:10 PM » |
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From ~1950's-980's
COE & GRDA
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Teufelwald
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« Reply #14 on: August 18, 2007, 05:04:43 PM » |
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States that do not have many natural lakes build reservoirs right?
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