James River Boat Ramp

[Phil Lilley]

Have had alot of emails asking me about boat ramps on the James... so I thought we might talk about it here.

Blunk - good road the way to the ramp area, paved. The ramp itself is concrete and fairly steep but my 2-wheel drive dodge did fine. Parking is limited to about 15 rigs? And looks like it could get pretty sloppy if we get alot of rain.

We had no trouble heading downstream as far as depth of water in my G3 and 90 hp power but going upstream you'll have issues with depth if you're not careful.

Galena Ramp off 248 is a nice area but the ramp is pointed in the wrong direction, I'm told.

[Jason Essary]

Walnut Springs sub-division has a nice ramp also, but the parking is only for 8 to 10 rig/trailers. Paved and concrete all the way. McCord Bend ramp is closed now, the owner got feed up with all the headache. Longs Camp has a ramp but its dirt/mud and u better have a light boat and a good 4wheel drive.

Put in at Walnut this morning. 6am had my limit by 7:30. Picked up two buddies and had limits by 10.

[motoman]

.......Blunk - good road the way to the ramp area, paved. The ramp itself is concrete and fairly steep but my 2-wheel drive dodge did fine. Parking is limited to about 15 rigs? And looks like it could get pretty sloppy if we get alot of rain......

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Blunk is the only ramp I can speak of, but last year we fished the area a few days. Got a good amount of rain one of the days, and things were VERY sloppy in the parking area, and on the ramp. So something to keep in mind if you have tires with low tread, or 2 wheel drive. A few guys had some problems; but nothing everyone wasn't able to work around.