Tub Lake Continued

......Because it looks like a tub, I guess. It is too small to be called Tub Slough, and Tub Pond just does not fit. Tub Lake is fine with us bottom dwellers so it will stand that it looks like a tub and lake sounds good. If I find out different I will let you know. Ryan's Lake has many places that are named and I wished I could find out where the names come from. Maybe Big John McGuire can help me with that. He has been in the club for years and has fogotten more places than I will ever explore.

South Easterly and a couple of ridges over from Tub lake is a historical area called the Duck Roost. To my knowledge there were no major or historical wars fought in this area but it is historic in my view. The Duck Roost is a mini vacation home to many species of water fowl. So the name Duck Roost is pretty obvious. If you are close by as the sun begins to set, you will here the familiar sound of wings swooshing by as the various kinds of Ducks head to their bedding place. It is a beautiful sound as you hear the wings from a distance then they quckly pass overhead. It sounds as if there wings are popping as they put on the brakes as they land.

Ducks are not the only game that inhabits this big slough that is bordered by tall pines, oaks, ironwoods, and a place named Oakey Ridge. I will get to the Big Oakey later on but the Duck Roost has a few stories to tell.

Deer stands dot the surroundings of this long and wide slough. David has a stand called the Black Stand and Mine is called the Tall Stand. Both of these stands border the Duck Roost. We called David's stand the Black Stand because weh he first moved it to the current location it was built with black board sheathing. My stand was a platform stand and it was about eight feet off of the ground. Me and David moved my stand to its present location because....................