Hardwater 2022-2023!!

[KFhunter]

There’s a few spots that’ll get ya if you aren’t careful especially there at dead mans eddy, there’s a rock pile mid stream you need to stay right of

Right before that there a shallow spot sticking way out, so it’s a far left, then hard right, then around the rock pile, then stay left lol


Awesome area of the river

[Southpole]

We’ll crap, hope we find out all the major gremlins with this guy  . It’s so low right now there’s not too many hidden monsters right now, if it gets any lower we’ll be finding dead body’s.

[KFhunter]

What I do is make a track on GPS going upstream and follow that precisely coming back down the river, it’s better going upstream than down, you can really take your time going up and really read the river and mark the hazards. 

There’s no way I’d launch then head downstream if I didn’t know the water well.

With a guide you’ll get a major shortcut to learning the hazards as they’ll point them all out

Good way to go really


I used to run a lot of rivers in jet boats, Clearwater, snake, Columbia spokane, kettle river all the way to Canada even did the gorge on the kettle

Some of those spots you can’t go anymore, due to rafters

[Southpole]

What I do is make a track on GPS going upstream and follow that precisely coming back down the river, it’s better going upstream than down, you can really take your time going up and really read the river and mark the hazards. 

There’s no way I’d launch then head downstream if I didn’t know the water well.

With a guide you’ll get a major shortcut to learning the hazards as they’ll point them all out

Good way to go really


I used to run a lot of rivers in jet boats, Clearwater, snake, Columbia spokane, kettle river all the way to Canada even did the gorge on the kettle

Some of those spots you can’t go anymore, due to rafters

All this river talk is making me excited for summer and have gotten over the ice fishing, thanks KF

[bearpaw]

I grew up boating Roosevelt, I knew it well enough to boat most of it in the moonlight, also had a printed map that showed all the depths similar to this online map, you might find this pretty handy: https://usa.fishermap.org/depth-map/columbia-river/#map

There are lots of areas to be careful of rocks, learn the main channel and its much safer, and you have to watch out for the whirlpools in the little dalles if you go through there during June runoff. One time we hit a whirlpool in June, my buddy driving got thrown out of the driver seat, I was able to grab the wheel, nobody got thrown out of the boat but we had a new respect for those whirlpools. If you ever got thrown out during June a whirlpool would suck you right down, the hole in some of those whirlpools is several feet wide during top runoff flows.

Roosevelt is an awesome water but repsect it, also brush up on the park service rules.

[KFhunter]

Running over a whirlpool is different than you might expect

The boat side shifts under you while your body tries to go straight lol

Kinda like an earthquake I’d imagine

[bearpaw]

Running over a whirlpool is different than you might expect

The boat side shifts under you while your body tries to go straight lol

Kinda like an earthquake I’d imagine

My buddy was lucky to not leave the boat, scared the dickens right out of us, yes, the boat turns, plus if its wide across you hit the other side hard.

[Ridgeratt]

The Dallas is an interesting place. one minute you're in 35 feet of water and the next you have a rock less than a foot under the boat.

If you are set on fishing right now you should be able to launch at Bradbery beach and cross to the next pens. Bradbery is still 3 feet above low water to launch.


You went thru the gorge! Riding or Driving!! What time of year?

[KFhunter]

When the lake is low, the river will be high.

[KFhunter]

The Dallas is an interesting place. one minute you're in 35 feet of water and the next you have a rock less than a foot under the boat.

If you are set on fishing right now you should be able to launch at Bradbery beach and cross to the next pens. Bradbery is still 3 feet above low water to launch.


You went thru the gorge! Riding or Driving!! What time of year?

I was a passenger

H your neighbor was with us

Didn’t even scratch the paint job

[KFhunter]

To my knowledge we’re the only ones to make it both ways without totaling a boat

[Southpole]

We were on the Pend Oreille river last year. We ran from Boundary dam to Metaline Falls and it got kinda pushy from the whirlpools before we went under the bridge. Good info guys, thanks.

[KFhunter]

Z canyon is gorgeous!

We parked the nose of the boat under the waterfall

[Ridgeratt]

To my knowledge we’re the only ones to make it both ways without totaling a boat

I have seen some pretty mangled canoes from going thru it.

[KFhunter]

Ya

It’s claimed a few lives as your well aware