I posted this in another tread and I thought I might add to it. I think that others can create as craze a tale as mine so I hope you will add to this tread. Remember it has to be lake related.
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Originally Posted by FLboater
In ancient times there lived a young sea serpent named Ms Winnie. She was a little known serpent who was a first cousin to Loch Ness. Young Winnie frolicked in the Western Atlantic. Her favorite pastime was finding out of the way to passages into little know regions. She would swim up rivers and streams to explore various lakes and playgrounds. One day she entered a Great Bay and continued to swim up stream through McDude River until she found a large body of water with many islands and deep holes.
As she was playing in the Board part of the lake diving to deep holes, she met a Great Spirit named Pesaukee who was with his friend WD.
Pesaukee ruled the air, land and water. He had a home high in the mountains on the western shore of the water. They fell in love and wanted to be together all the time but Pesaukee lived on the land and Winnie lived in the water. Since Peasukee controlled the land, air and water, he caused a great upheaval of the land so that he could live with Winnie. The upheaval caused the McDude River to change course and not connect with the lake. Therefore Winnie could not return to the Atlantic by the way she came. The lake water to flow north of Peasukee’s mountain and Winnie did not know where the water went.
Pesaukee talked Winnie into staying with him. As a wedding present to Winnie he created a large island from part of his mountain. It was surrounded by water.
So that Winnie could live on the island, she had to become a land serpent. She chose to become a Rattlesnake. Pesaukee gave the island to Winnie as a present with the understanding that all the women that lived on the island would be kind, good and love their island.
That is how we have Rattlesnake Gal and Island Girl.
The lake became known as Winnipesaukee.
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Here is chapter 2 of the adventures of the McDude River Swimmers – Grant the Dolphin
When Ms Winnie swam up the McDude, she was follow by a young handsome dolphin called Grant. Grant loved playing in the deep parts of the lake with Ms Winnie.
He discovered that diving to find treasures could be fun and he left Ms Winnie to find her own adventures.
Grant discovered that many times his friend WD would find the treasures first. This was because WD was aided by “Blood Sucking Snails of Winnipesaukee”. (These creatures are 12” in diameter and their shells are clear and you can’t see them sliming across the bottom lake. That is until they find an unsuspecting swimmer and latch onto them and then gorge themselves with blood then you sure can see them. )
Grant started playing with Rock Bass but they really were not friendly and hard to find. So, Grant started to play with smaller fish. He showed them first how to create schools and then he would chase then so they could practice schooling. He then set up a jumping practice course in the Broads to train them to jump out of the water when the waves were high. These fish became known at White Perch because they practiced their jumping over Grants white belly as he swam upside down and in front of them to give them instruction. To this day if you are in the right place at the right time you can see them forming schools and jumping out of the water. You should look carefully around them and you just might find Grant.