Pretty SORRY!!!!

I don't fuss about the COE often, they have a thankless job and get a lot of criticism.
With that said I witnessed one of the biggest waste of federal funds I have seen in a very long time. Drove around to the new ramp at hwy 7 to unload in the river and go back down stream, Sardis is above summer pool so shouldn't be a big deal, you would think. Boy was I wrong, unless you are in a small aluminum boat you can't even get off the trailer, sand has the ramp covered and the water is up on the turn around section of the ramp.
Talked to a guy that had unloaded and watched him finally get his boat, 15 foot jon boat with a 15 on it, pushed out in the river and told me there was no way I was unloading my boat, after watching him I saw he was right. Millions of dollars was spent on this project just a couple of years ago and it was a totally waste as far as giving fisherman access to the river, you would think "waterway engineers" of our country would have put the ramp where it would work right.:mad::mad:

Right on, the ramp worked pretty well the first year. Ever since they built the new bridge it has been a mess. I always go down to Wyatts now if I want to fish that end. It wouldn't have been an option today with all this dad blame wind. Have they at least cleared the 4 foot of mud from the bottom of the ramp? I haven't been by there in a couple, few months..

Not sure, sand pretty much started where the water was on the ramp and then a small hole and then a sand bar you could see just under the water, backed in the hole but it wasn't deep enuff to even float my boat.

Stay off of my lake......lol

After tomorrow you can have the dang thing for another year!!!!

Stupid. Just like Holiday Lodge ramp facing the main lake into the wind all the time and no place to park. they easily could have put it on the east bank of the cove and dredged it out. And the same for spending millions of dollars on concrete parking are Wyatt's and most of which is now under water. Was nothing ever wrong with parking on the dirt lot--as long as the ramps themselves were good. Still say the best spot ever for a ramp is Piney Point on the east bank. Will never happen though.

And glad you posted this because I was thinking of putting in there myself.

Thought it might help some, water looks good up there, would have liked to have fished it.

Just come on down to Barnett. things just now heating up here. Next 3-4 weeks gonna be jammin

Yes it's a total waste of money. 1st year was great. After that it filled I with mud. Only time you can use it is when there's a flood and then the river has so much current it's not safe. Allready been a couple rescues due to swift currents.

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Yes it's a total waste of money. 1st year was great. After that it filled I with mud. Only time you can use it is when there's a flood and then the river has so much current it's not safe. Allready been a couple rescues due to swift currents.

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I have talked with COE about the useless ramp. They realize that changes must be made to the ramp, but river flooding this spring (that's what gave us 262'+ in Sardis) has kept them from doing any actual work. The idea is to add riprap weirs on the upper and lower sides of the ramp to keep the river from dropping all the silt on the ramp. They say it works on other rivers. They do not have equipment to clean off the ramp at the current high water level. With all the wind we have had, the ramp could have been used a lot this spring.

I am glad to hear they are willing to try and fix it, have my doubts about just rip rap doing the job tho, bet it will take some sort of retaining wall on the upstream side. That river sure looked good yesterday and on a less windy day I would have come back up from Wyatt's but I haven't done that in years, like 25. Last time I fished up there was in a St Jude tourney and we went over the road because the water was so hi.

COE did mention a type of weir wall that they use on the Mississippi, but I didn't remember the specific name. I remember the "over the road" flooding in the early '90s. I was coming to Oxford from Holly Springs and had to detour up Hwy. 78 thru New Albany to get home. I see that they made the new bridge and approaches quite a bit higher.

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COE did mention a type of weir wall that they use on the Mississippi, but I didn't remember the specific name. I remember the "over the road" flooding in the early '90s. I was coming to Oxford from Holly Springs and had to detour up Hwy. 78 thru New Albany to get home. I see that they made the new bridge and approaches quite a bit higher.

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THE new bridges is really nice, the parking lot is really nice but the ramp itself is awful...

Nothin but bathrooms with plenty of parking. Ramp oughta be on the North side, too late

I hate that...i used that ramp for some fishing and duck hunting but havent been able to in 2 years

Bathroom was terrible too, slam full of crap literrally

Yep great Engineers!!!!!! And the last I heard the game and fish sunk one of those ol junky green metal patrol boats on up the river???????? Mightneed to have Boat US!!!!!