Inland Lobster Feed

Negro Bar, Lake Natoma

7/8/17

Please join us at Lake Natoma for our “Inland Lobster Feed” dive and potluck on Saturday July 8 at the Negro Bar picnic area. Holger has offered to loan us a few crawdad traps that we will use when we make a dive late Friday to set them out.

Saturday morning all of the divers will meet at the Negro Bar State Park by 9:00 to boat up past the Rainbow Bridge for a fun drift dive. You should plan on arriving at the Negro Bar picnic area early because we want to be in our boats and ready to dive by 9:00! As far as I know the dock will not be ready, but the boat ramp will be available. There are a lot of big crayfish hiding under the rocks so bring a “Goody Bag” to grab the biggest and fastest ones you see. There are usually lost “treasures” that fishermen and swimmers have dropped in the lake so we will do a scavenger hunt while we dive. After the high water we had last winter the bottom may be cleaner than usual. The deepest you can get is only about 40 feet, and there will be a current sweeping us along so you will have to hug the bottom to keep from drifting too fast. Visibility is typically about 6 to 10 feet and the water temperature has been in the low sixties on previous dives.

After we have made our dives we’ll gather in the picnic area for the rest of the fun. We will have prizes for a crawdad race for the adults and another for the kids, so be sure to save your fastest crawdad. We will also have a “Liars Contest” where we will spin yarns about the “treasures” that we
find. After all the fun we will fire up the barbecue and cook up the crawdads, hamburgers, corn-on-the-cob and whatever other delectables that are contributed to the potluck.

Please bring $5.00 per adult to contribute toward the soft drinks, hamburgers and corn on the cob. Please also bring a potluck dish, and don’t forget your dive gear, hats, beach chairs and sunscreen.

Directions: The entrance to Negro Bar is on Greenback Lane about ½ mile east of the Round Table Pizza at Madison and Greenback. After you pass the ranger station, where you need to pay for your day use, turn right and follow the road all the way to the parking area. We will be waiting for you by
the lake. There is a boat launch area immediately below the ranger station.

Jack

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