You could build a grass hut on that island and market it on Instagram as a survival an abnb and make a killing

Skinny just needs to start an island resort for aldeer outcast. Do the standard nonprofit filing then just add an aldeer line for "charity gun raffles"..

Or timeshare it.. $ I'll go $500 to a K... Dang it does look like boocoo mocs would reside there and BHAMFRED you seriously need to write a Peter Capstick like book!

I would certainly invest in Fred writing a book !
Definitely would go big !

That’s the island directly across from the lock 8 ramp, I think. Seems less than 27 acres. Access would be easy enough at least

same one, not 100 yards from the boat ramp.

JMX, Fred had started his book but broke his crayon!

That island floods bad. It’s got some good timber on it if I recall.

Wonder how much flood insurance is on that. Sounds like a public hangout if its -100 yds from ramp. Take more money than sense to have that.

it's a little snaky for a hangout, and I don't recall any beaches

the rest of the story on the drowning victim.....

seems eight local 18-25 year olds locals, all black, decided to go kill a deer on said island. So they crossed to the island in an 16' jon boat. They killed a deer(no permit to hunt said island) loaded deer in boat and headed to the boat ramp. Waythehell overloaded boat took on water to overflowing. One of them nicknamed Gangster decided to swim for shore....

Go back a few months and as I drive thru Akron I see a couple of blacks hunting on the railroad, on and off the tracks as the rabbit dogs strike. I slip/crawl/run down the tracks to get closer to them. One of them spots me and takes off across a soybean field. He makes 400 yards to my 100 yards!!!!! and I quit chasing. Couple days later on of the locals tells me it was Gangster, high school wide receiver. He laughing at my running and I tell him I will get him later.

Back to the boat....Gangster "swims" about ten feet and sinks like a rock. Gone. Somebody finally sees the others holding onto the boat and rescues them. ALL the first responders in Hale Co show up and start dragging. I arrive and see folks dragging from 100 yards UPSTREAM to 100 yards downstream of where he went down. WTH? Drowning victims in fairly still water go straight down, rarely downstream, and never upstream. I leave to go to work. I drive by maybe six hours later and no Gangster. I ask one of the boys who was in the boat to throw a rock to where Gangster went down. Jimmy and I get his boat and launch it. First drag where he was supposed to of gone down and I hook something. I pull the rope up and see a boot...I have Gangster by the pants leg. I call the High Sheriff Chester Colvin over and hand him the rope. I tell him to let us get out and started down the road before he tells anyone else we have him. There are prolly 150 wailing blacks on the boat ramp and I do not want to be there when they bring him out.

The fella that told me it was gangster asked me the next day if it was me that found him? I told him if you remember I said I would get him eventually.....

Good story. Except for Gangster.

I dont see how people drown like that. It always makes me wonder how?

someone who probably isn't a great swimmer to begin with, jumping in the water fully clothed and with boots on....not hard to see why they didn't make it. You ever tried swimming, fully clothed including boots? It's a lot different than jumping in a pool in your swimming trunks

During the summer, there's a decent sized sandbar on the northeast side of it.

Somebody needs to buy this.The guy who owns it is sitting in he office next to me.

For some reason this comes to mind.

winter time cold water, bulky clothes, boots, can't swim to start with.

Ask him if he's ever seen anyone "piddlin" out there?

Could have a Cald mine on it.

I don't think he has been on it but a couple of times since he bought it. Piddle away, He also had some land on the shore above it but I think he already sold it.