Boat launch

[alanger]

This morning we get up at 2:30 AM. Get in the truck and head down to the boat launch. we are approaching and we look in the parking lot and we are like YEs no one here. We pull up to the boat ramp and get ready to back down. suddenly we look at the dock and water. the water is 4-5ft low. we cant launch our boat becuase its too shallow the bottom would hit the rocks. and there isn't enough pads for the trailer to even get the boat floating.  so we had to pull out and go home. I guess the kings will have to wait until tonight. I hate it when this happens.

anyone else have it happen to them anywhere?

[cohoho]

Buy a Jet...  Sorry just being a smart %$#....  What launch? 

[alanger]

hey that's ok cohoho. i am saving for one in the long run when i can actually afford one im still pretty young.  and in the mean time i am working on having my dad get one.

Orondo street launch (public launch) WEnatchee, wa

[DOUBLELUNG]

Why not run down to Hydro park or up to Confluence SP?  Only a few minutes run time from either of those when Orondo is too low. 

[boneaddict]

Confluence was pushing boats through one after another yesterday.  We stopped there to eat a snack by the water on our way home.

[alanger]

The gates open at 6 at confluence state park. we were going out at 3. didnt really want to wait 3 hours. hydro. its on the same river. confluence would have been just as bad.

[huntnphool]

I had no trouble at BeeBee Bridge alanger, we spent the whole week up there, but like Coho I too have a jet.

[alanger]

alumaweld? thunder jet? 

Yeah we will be going up above wells this weekend.

[Armadillo]

Dude that sucks. Launches are a real pain sometimes. Reminds me of when I was helping my dad with the fisheries department at the UW. We were setting gill nets on Lk WA. We launched the boat just fine but the guy who was in charge of maintaining the boats didnt put the rear plug in so we started taking on alot of water luckily we had buckets and the plug was sittin on the console haha.

[ICEMAN]

The guy in charge of maintaining the boat leaves the plug out so you dont have to drain the boat before you launch it, hence it was left on the dash for the operator.  Your job is to put the plug in before you launch.... 

[Armadillo]

  gotta rationalize somehow hahaha

[alanger]

ive seen that happen before

[Armadillo]

It was lame, my dad sat around while I bailed 

[alanger]

How helpful.

yeah well i went to the boat launch in advance and this time i went to confluence and the water was way low there too!  at the end of the dock it was like 2 1/2 ft. deep! all that was out there waas jet skiis cause no one wants to risk the boat.  What is up with the low water levels???

[huntnphool]

alumaweld? thunder jet?

NorthRiver. The ramp at Beebe would be okay even if they dropped the river 5 more feet, don't know why you don't just run another 10 minutes up river.