>Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:04:04 -0400 >To: [email protected] >From: Eddie Robinson <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV-L] Ferry's or Ferryboats > >About 1957-58 all the inlaw's and outlaw's went fishing on Red River. We >left Avery and went about 2 miles east, and turned north to the river. I >think it was called "Grassy Lake". I was working in Austin for U of Texas >and came home for the big fishing. Dad had a Army Command Car he converted >to a small school bus and we took that and went to the lake to meet the >other's. Next morning a game warden from Oklahoma walked into camp during >breakfast and informed us that "If we fished the Red River standing on the >bank in Texas we must have an Oklahoma Fishing License". I didn't believe >him and when I got back to Austin I checked and sure enough it's the only >river in the US that is that way. All the other states own to the center >of the river. All the River was given to Oklahoma in a treaty when Red >River County was divided. >They have tried to have the treaty amended several times but Oklahoma >likes it the way it is. Hope this helps someone, >Eddie M. Robinson >Kingston, Tn >Still call Avery my Home. > >At 03:12 PM 8/10/00 -0500, you wrote: > >>The ferry that I remember was the one that crossed the river on Hwy. 37. I >>remember that they built the bridge which replaced it some time in the 50s. >>We drove over there and watched the work going on once and all that BIG >>construction equipment was very impressive to me. Going across on the ferry >>was fun and a little scary. I liked to look over the side and watch how >>that muddy red water boiled up around the ferry as we crossed. Years >>later, people would gather up under the bridge on the Texas side and have >>huge fish frys. Men would run the trot lines in boats and bring the catch >>up on the banks where black iron washpots of boiling grease were waiting to >>fry them. Big ol' catfish in that river. Some up to a hundred pounds, they >>say. >>Sharon B.