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I am taking my wife and her kayak to Bear Creek tomorrow. She and her sister will kayak while I go fishing. I have never put in the Bear Creek area. I always go more towards the dam. I will be getting to the lake via 72 and was looking to drop her off right around there. What are my launch options in that area?
Mill Creek, but don't know the directions to give you.
Take hwy 72 to Iuka, MS, turn north onto hwy 25. At 4-way stop sign turn right onto hwy 172, Quitman St., Pass the park on your right, turn left onto Spring St., Cross RR track and turn right onto Snowdown Rd. (spring st dead ends there), Turn left onto Eastport Rd., (closed down service station on corner), Turn right onto Mill Creek Rd. (old marina business on corner) The road dead ends at Mill Creek Resort.
You could stay on Eastport rd., it dead ends at Eastport, MS.
Yep what cane said, if you want to go straight instead of turning for Mill Creek, if you go to the end of the road past Eastport Marina there is a public launch there out in to the river but then you would have to go back south to get in to Bear. Mill is a good place but sometimes finding a parking place can be a head ache.Quote:
Originally Posted by canebreaker
maachuu
Looking at Google Earth there seems to be a ramp off Margerum Rd just north of where 72 crosses Bear Creek. Any ever use that one?
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that would work for a yak, that water is pretty tricky, I have lived in this area all my life and never have launched there. If you drop a yak there, then go north towards the railroad bridge and once you go under the bridge there is a channel all the way out to the river but it is shallow in places all around it. Many years ago when I was younger, way younger LOL my dad would fish there and he had an wooden boat. He and my uncle wear out and had been to the railroad bridge picking up trot lines, I remember them coming coming towards the bank at a high rate of speed, and me being a kid I was scared to death, and my other uncles said the throttle must have stuck and to get on out of the way. just about 20 yds from the bank my dad shut the motor off completely and slid on it to the bank. reason he was goin wot towards the bank, the bottom of the wood boat had a BIG ole hole in it and he was keeping it on plane to keep from sinking :) I remember that to this day and so I just don't go there LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by BulldogBruce
I will drop my wife off there because they want to head south on Bear Creek. I will the head to Mill Creek if it is bad there. Thanx