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what do you all do when you go fishing by yourself, when you load and unload the boat in windy conditions? what do you do while you park/get the truck to keep the boat from getting beat up on the rocks or landing? especially if the wind is blowing sideways to the landing?
Pray....a bunch. Sometimes you can get another obliging fisherman to hold her for you while you do all yur gettin.
Pull it up on the bank as far as you can and secure it with a rope tied to something then lower the skeg to the mud so it can't move sideways.
I've got a long rope and I'll slide it over to the ramp on the downwind side of the ramp and tie it off both front and back to keep it up close to the ramp IF it's real windy. if it's just bearly blowing, I'll put it on the upside to keep it snug against the ramp. Now if we talking barnett, I'll look at the wind direction and put in on the downwind side of the lake.
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Originally Posted by yikess
If it is blowin that bad dont take it off the trailer. Go back home!
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I learned this the hard way.Quote:
Originally Posted by satdoc1
dittoQuote:
Originally Posted by yikess
What yikess said plus, if you're already on the lake, find a place to hide out till the wind dies down.
2 power poles
aren't you supposed to be studying???????????????Quote:
Originally Posted by PaperMouth
!!@%##$**!! mostly !banghead
I fish by myself the majority of the time, and I have some small diameter short ropes, maybe 3' long I keep handy, and tie the boat off using the forward and rear cleats on the side I ease up to or launch on. My boat does not have too many scratches/dings, but they are starting to accumulate. I don't worry too much about it since its an 04 model tracker. Wife use to go with me alot when it was new, and she is able to load the boat w/o issue. Now, I just tie it and hope I don't get another scratch, but oh well if I do.
I was on breakQuote:
Originally Posted by duckhunter
I don"t understand why the Corps doesn't put boat docks at the ramps. I understand that they are flood control lakes and the water level fluctuates greatly. The Corps lakes in Missouri are flood control lakes also and fluctuate just as much. The difference is, the Corps puts boat docks at all of their ramps here. The bigger ramps have 2 docks. The docks have wheels on the rear and are cabled on the front. They are raised and lowered with a tractor or even a pickup truck. It makes it so easy to launch and load by your self. Just back off the trailer and motor over to the dock and tie off. Go park the truck and go fishing. When you are finished, Just tie up to the dock, back the truck down the ramp and hop back in the boat. No pulling up on thee ramp or bank. No beating up the boat.
At the ramp I use most often at Sardis they would have to move that dock 3,000' to 4,000' horizontally, but only 20' laterally. I would love it if they could make it work though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Speck
Up there in the middle of that rip rap is where I launch in the summer.
2 powerpoles comes to 2 or 3 thousande smack a roos, that some high priced anchoring.
Yep rees, specially for a person that aint got a job, lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rees Guide
Why can't you use your fancy smancy I pilot to spot lock the boat jus out of harms way? I ain't got one and really don't want one, but this looks like it would come in handy in times like these. When ya get back, jus back to boat up to the ramp with the remote and climb in. Won't this werk?
dont have one of them fancy trolling motors..........even if i did, wouldnt trust my boat in the middle of the lake while i get the truck, lol.
Hey BRM said he had a deal on a power pole.
LOL, Duck, dat boys gonna learn one day,
I like the trolling motor idea the best, very funny reading.
I was giving you some ideas to keep in mind
There is a video of a guy using the I-pilot to do just that at the boat ramp on Youtube. My new Terrova has the I-pilot too, but I am not that versed at using it to put that kind of trust in it to do that for me yet. But an interesting note/potential warning about all COE waters. I don't remember and cannot locate the source back, but I just read somewhere that this year, the COE made a regulation about leaving boats unattended at ramps - they made it a big no no and supposedly they can issue tickets for this. I really hope this isn't true, since I fish alone occasionally too. What I've often did when putting in alone, is to ask for fellow fishermen's help, offering them $5 for their time has usually worked for me. Seen too many nylon ropes break to put too much trust in them when I'm not around to resue my baby!
Big bites, full baskets, and God's blesings to you all!
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aight torch, dont give him no ideas.Quote:
Originally Posted by torch
Come on duckhunter you can swing a couple of them power poles
Minnerman gets todays prize. That is an excellant idea , and it would work just fine, I cant see why it wouldnt, Although I would test it with someone in the boat just to test the range on the remote. Oh and the prize I mentioned is a date with WANNABE. PFTTTTTTTQuote:
Originally Posted by Minnerman
Whats the range on the remote??
With my luck, i will put in at grenada landing, get ready to leave, get to the landing, deploy the terrova to keep it in place, go get the truck, then come back and find out that my boat had drifted to torrence.
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Originally Posted by atm
wow!