I put my kayak in the back slough across the road from the boat harbor. It has a hard clay bottom with numerous laydowns. It warms faster than the river and has no current so it's a prime spawning area each spring. Generally no one fishes it, except from the bank. I found out many years ago that small water adjacent a boat ramps never gets fished heavily. No one drags a boat 20 miles to a boat ramp to fish some small back slough, LOL.