Boyette's Resort

We invite you to come and visit us. Make your arrangements for one day or as many as you like. We strive to make your accommodations for you at any time you would like to visit Reelfoot Lake......
"You choose the time."

We offer packages, however you do not have to take a package you can bring your own boat or rent one from Bo's Landing which is about 1/4 mile from me. There are several boat ramps & cleaning stations in the area.
 

Owner: Judy Capps 1-888-465-6523

  
 
  Yesteryears of Reelfoot Lake
THESE PICTURES WERE GIVEN TO ME BY MY COUSIN. SHE WASN'T SURE ABOUT THE TIME THEY WERE ALL TAKEN.
  

 

THE FIRST PICTURE ON THE RIGHT WAS TAKEN IN FRONT OF MY PLACE WHERE THERE USE TO BE A BOAT LANDING. YEARS AGO MISS NANNY & MR. RED BOYETTE WHO WAS THE OWNERS OF MY PLACE AND THE FAMOUS BOYETTE'S DINING ROOM NEXT DOOR TO ME. AS YOU CAN SEE THIS WAS A PLACE TO SIT AND WILE AWAY THE DAY BRAGGING ABOUT THEIR DAYS CATCH.
I SURE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE HEARD THEIR TALES, A MANY OF BOOKS COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN I AM SURE. MY GRANDDADDY IS THE TALL GENTLEMAN TO THE FAR LEFT HE WAS CALLED PAPA GOOCH ALSO KNOWN AS THE TURTLE MAN BACK WHEN I WAS SMALL WE USE TO CATCH BABY TURTLES TO SELL HIM AS ALL THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS WOULD DO, HE HAS SHIPPED MILLIONS OF TURTLES ALL OVER THE WORLD MANY WENT TO JAPAN . I CAN REMEMBER SOME OF THE STORIES MY GRANDDADDY HAS TOLD. HE WOULD TELL ABOUT THE 37 FLOOD WHEN THE RIVER RAN THROUGH THE STREETS OF TIPTONVILLE & RIDGELY AS I REMEMBER HE SAID THEY RODE BOATS DOWN THE STREETS OF BOTH TOWNS.

Reelfoot Lake Gathering

  
 

 

 

 

THESE PICTURES WERE TAKEN IN 1910 SUPPOSEDLY TO PROVE THAT REELFOOT LAKE WASN'T A NAVIGABLE BODY OF WATER, WHICH AS YOU SEE IS NOT. THESE STUMPS ARE STILL THERE TODAY ,BUT ARE BELOW THE WATER.  FISHERMEN LOOK FOR THESE STUMPS TO FISH AROUND BECAUSE MOST ARE HOLLOW AND CRAPPIE , CATFISH & BASS BED UP INSIDE THEM. THEY QUIETLY TROLL UP TO THEM AND JIG AROUND THE STUMP. 

    

 

THE PICTURE ON THE RIGHT IS OF MY MOTHER (MARTHA PARKER) AND MY COUSIN CHARLES PARKER TAKEN IN 1948 AT SHORTY & MAMMIE HAINES BAR-B-OUE PLACE AT THE SPILLWAY. MAMMIE HAINES WAS MY FATHER'S (JOE PARKER) SISTER.
IF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN TO REELFOOT LAKE YOU MAY REMEMBER MY MOTHER FROM HER DINING ROOM HISTORY.
SHE OPERATED GOOCH'S DINING ROOM FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS. THEN IN 1973 SHE MOVED TO LAKEVIEW DINING ROOM AND WAS THERE UNTIL 1988 WHEN SHE DECIDED TO RETIRE . I THEN OPERATED LAKEVIEW DINING ROOM FOR 5 YEARS BEFORE BUYING BOYETTE'S RESORT.
AT PRESENT TIME MY MOTHER IS FULL TIME BABYSITTER FOR MY YOUNGEST GRANDDAUGHTER.

My Mother and Charles Parker

 
   

 

    

Robert Gooch

This is my Uncle Robert Gooch, the founder on Gooch's Resort

Below are pictures of me as a child
   


Judy Capps at Boyette's Resort at Reelfoot Lake
This picture was taken of me behind the cottages I now own.

     Judy Capps and her Father
This is me and my Dad.
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