Separated at birth?

Wapanocca Lake

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Sorry I don't know enough about how to use google map links.

Then again, I have to use dots to keep paragraphs separated.

I saw a news story about a Jericho AR Police officer shooting the Fire Chief, IN COURT, over speeding tickets.

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My grandpa, Bop-Hyde, took my brother and me fishing on some great waters just acoss the Mississippi from Memphis. Island 40 Chute and Dacus Lake were channels long forgotten by the Mississippi. Wapanocca Lake is only four miles from the river, but near enough that was certainly influenced by Ol' Man River.

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While small by Texas standrds, it seemed a bit too big for the 10 HP limit. It was okay though, Bop-Hyde only had 9.8 HP engines.

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There were water trails through the cypress woods. Toss a spinner bait into the duckweek covered water, drag it past a cypresss stump, and chances were good that you would pull out a bass. Makes me want to visit to see what a bass fly will do next to those stumps.

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The lake was closed in the '80s or '90s. The latest word from the USFWS is, "Due to a loss of the major water source for the 600 acre Wapanocca Lake, fisheries has declined..." Still it is a good visiting spot for waterfowl.