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Title: Boat launch
Post by: alanger on August 10, 2009, 09:24:45 AM: 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. :bash: :bash: 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?
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: cohoho on August 10, 2009, 11:13:22 AM: Buy a Jet... Sorry just being a smart %$#.... What launch?
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: alanger on August 10, 2009, 12:16:05 PM: 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
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on August 10, 2009, 12:53:29 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: boneaddict on August 10, 2009, 01:13:12 PM: Confluence was pushing boats through one after another yesterday. We stopped there to eat a snack by the water on our way home.
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: alanger on August 10, 2009, 05:13:35 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: huntnphool on August 10, 2009, 07:27:34 PM: I had no trouble at BeeBee Bridge alanger, we spent the whole week up there, but like Coho I too have a jet. ;)
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: alanger on August 11, 2009, 08:27:21 AM: alumaweld? thunder jet?

Yeah we will be going up above wells this weekend.
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: Armadillo on August 11, 2009, 08:31:54 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: ICEMAN on August 11, 2009, 08:46:13 PM: 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.... :chuckle:
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: Armadillo on August 12, 2009, 07:25:54 PM: :bash: gotta rationalize somehow hahaha
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: alanger on August 13, 2009, 08:43:16 AM: ive seen that happen before
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: Armadillo on August 13, 2009, 09:43:34 AM: It was lame, my dad sat around while I bailed :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: alanger on August 14, 2009, 09:44:18 AM: 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! :bash: 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???
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: huntnphool on August 14, 2009, 09:56:58 AM: Quote from: alanger on August 11, 2009, 08:27:21 AM
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. :dunno:
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: alanger on August 14, 2009, 11:29:57 AM: I know phool but some nights we just wanna stay close to home. heading up above wells to brewster tonight.
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: huntnphool on August 14, 2009, 11:30:44 AM: Well go get-em and post some pics when you get back.
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: teal101 on August 14, 2009, 11:31:21 AM: Quote from: alanger on August 10, 2009, 05:13:35 PM
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.

Check hydro next time, or even whenever you can get down there next. Some of the launches on the Columbia have long ramps for just this occasion.

And the water is dropped for the salmon. Im guessing since theres a large run coming through bonneville they are flushing ots of water down that way to accommodate them. Coulee will spill soon and we'll be back to normal.
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: alanger on August 14, 2009, 11:44:36 AM: Hopefully. The low water sucks.

SO the salmon arent done coming clear up here? i have been keeping an eye on the fish counts and it looks like its starting to whind down.

Got some pics from lst time up there.
Title: Re: Boat launch
Post by: alanger on August 14, 2009, 12:02:28 PM: heres a nice one and a decent one.

august 6th