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The resort also offers multiple packages for those interested in fishing, hunting and kayaking. Blue Bank Resort's restaurant, The Fishhouse, places an emphasis on fresh, local foods.
Blue Bank is an unincorporated community in eastern Lake County, Tennessee. [1] Blue Bank is on the southern shores of Reelfoot Lake.
An 1800 map shows a 'Redfoot River' in the area near the Lake, a possible misspelling of the name from Henry Rutherford's 1785 survey. From Low's Encyclopaedia. According to the United States Geological Survey, Reelfoot Lake was formed in northwestern Tennessee when the region subsided during the 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes, which were centered around New Madrid, Missouri. [2]
Reelfoot Lake State Park is a state park in the northwest corner of Tennessee in the United States. It encompasses Reelfoot Lake and is situated in Lake and Obion counties. The park itself makes up 280 acres (1.1 km 2 ), divided into ten sections around the lake. [ 1 ]
Harrison Bay State Park is a 1,200-acre (4.9 km 2) state demonstration park developed by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s along the shores of Chickamauga Lake. Opened in 1937, the bay gets it name from the now partially submerged town of Harrison, Tennessee. It was built at the same time as Booker T. Washington State Park. [3]
Field and Stream International Fishing Guide. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. ISBN 9780030801310. Kreh, Lefty; Middleton, Harry (1993). Lefty's Favorite Fly Fishing Waters-Volume One-United States. Birmingham, Alabama: Odysseus Editions. Ford, Pat (2007). Best Fly-Fishing Trips Money Can Buy. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stakepole Books. ISBN 0-8117 ...
It covers 10,428 acres (4,220 ha) and comprises primarily lands adjacent to the lake that have not been included in the Tennessee State Park system, as part of Reelfoot Lake State Park. The refuge was established in 1941 and has been expanded on several occasions.
Lake Isom is a small natural lake located in Lake County, Tennessee immediately south of Reelfoot Lake. It is fed by Running Reelfoot Bayou, the outlet stream of Reelfoot Lake. Like Reelfoot, it was formed in the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes and it is very shallow and swampy. The entire lake and its environs, covering 1,846 acres (747 ha ...