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Name:	Smitty -	Reply
Subject:	Slough versus Cove
Date:	9/15/2006 1:38:41 PM

Is there a difference in meaning? I never heard the word "slough" until I bought on Lake Martin.

Name:	noagenda -	Reply
Subject:	Slough versus Cove
Date:	9/15/2006 1:49:02 PM

I would submit that a slough is smaller than a cove. More narrow in width and more shallow in depth. My 2 cents.

Name:	HappyCamper -	Reply
Subject:	Slough versus Cove
Date:	9/15/2006 3:28:14 PM

A slough is a mud filled bog or tidal estuary. Not sure how this term came to describe the inlets on Lake Martin since they are neither tidal nor boggy. They are called fingers or inlets on Lake Burton.

Name:	au67 -	Reply
Subject:	Slough versus Cove
Date:	9/15/2006 8:32:34 PM

For many years after Lake Martin came into being, it was considered by most of the locals as "the backwater", a mosquito infested place frequented only by persons of questionable character who fished on Sunday, swigged "stump juice" and took to gambling at sordid 'fish camps'. I guess slough just seemed to fit the prevailing opinion.

Name:	Lakeman -	Reply
Subject:	Slough versus Cove
Date:	9/15/2006 8:49:32 PM

I did not swig stump juice. Took a shot and chased it with " branch water ".

Name:	Osms -	Reply
Subject:	Slough versus Cove
Date:	9/15/2006 11:06:49 PM

Newbie your definition of slough is for bayou--that's pronounced 'by-u' not 'by-o' as the LA folks call Cotton By-o. Slough is fresh water and bayou is salt, brackish, marshy--at least in my world.

Name:	HappyCamper -	Reply
Subject:	Slough versus Cove
Date:	9/16/2006 8:01:11 AM

You missed the point. The definition of slough does not describe the inlets on lake martin.

Name:	Osms -	Reply
Subject:	Slough works for me--
Date:	9/16/2006 8:24:30 AM

What works better?

Name:	Osms -	Reply
Subject:	Must be a Georgia Yankee--
Date:	9/16/2006 8:28:02 AM

lake--Lake Burton that is.

Name:	HappyCamper -	Reply
Subject:	Must be a Georgia Yankee--
Date:	9/16/2006 12:01:59 PM

Yep, that would be me. A georgia yankee and DARN proud of it. (had to say darn instead of dam# because I was directed to the FBI homepage)

Name:	Osms -	Reply
Subject:	Yep, the FBI helps keep...
Date:	9/16/2006 4:59:01 PM

the site clean for the family folk.

Name:	HappyCamper -	Reply
Subject:	Yep, the FBI helps keep...
Date:	9/16/2006 6:11:53 PM

and I am DARN glad they do!

Name:	BigFoot -	Reply
Subject:	Yep, the FBI helps keep...
Date:	9/16/2006 7:43:29 PM

...heck yeah..........

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