The Lake Was Busy

[laker67]

By the looks of the boat traffic on friday, you would have thought it was a holiday weekend at loz. With the nice weather, people were de winterizing their boats and headed out for a cruise. LOts and lots of pontooners, long boaters, and even a few idiots out for a stroll in their 6o foot offshore,"inshore", racers. Add the spoonbillers ,who no doubt got beat to death from the waves, and the on going FLW tourney boys, it sure made for a busy day on the lake. More tourneys scheduled for the next 2 days will no doubt help the local business people recover from a long hard winter.

[Jbrant]

What part of the lake are you on?

[fishinwrench]

Yeppers, if the economy is truly in the dumps you sure can't tell it around here.

[laker67]

JBrant, I am located at the five MM on the big niangua.

How right you are FW. The wife and I were on the dock when a huge long boat came by and crashed waves against the dock and sea wall. Waves were so big that we got the return wave after it hits the seawall. I told Sandy, I would really like to have a boat like that. She says why, have you lost your stinkin mind. I says, I want it so I could sell it and replace my broken down seawall. No eco slump for the long boaters.

[Riverwhy]

Last weekend was a big Everstart bass tournament at LOZ. First place was 60lbs over three days. The fish were largely caught on gravel points transitioning into deeper water. A-rig was the bait of choice with the winner saying he was keeping it right on the bottom. The other bait of choice was the jerk bait. The water temperature was about 45 degrees in the main lake but was almost 10 degrees warmer near Ha Ha Tonka.