Fresh Water

Follow Jimmy and Bailey Bass and their new friend Wally Walleye as they journey the McCurtain County waterways of the Lower Mountain Fork River in search of the Big Broken Bow Lake. Along the way, they find daring adventures and meet all kinds of colorful characters and new friends.
As Granny likes to say, "Broken Bow is like the center of the earth: You can go anywhere from here!"

Brad Pennington is a Broken Bow High
School graduate and attended
Southeastern Oklahoma State University's
aviation program.
He toured with his band,
Potential Getaway Drivers,
before moving back to
McCurtain County.
He currently owns
and operates
County Trash Service,
a business that spans
Southeastern Oklahoma and
Southwestern Arkansas.
He is also an inventor and
patent owner of a
rotatable trailer hitch.
Brad resides in the
Broken Bow area with
his wife Sandy and
their son, Aidan.
This is his first
children's book.

Eric Parker is a Texas-born artist who resides in Caddo,
Oklahoma. He is a former tattoo artist and a father
of three children. He used watercolors and acrylic to
create the images in this book. He hopes that one
day a child who reads this book will illustrate a book
of their own and he will get to see it!