Causeway bridge update

[Gatorjet]

The word I have gotten is that the bridge will be getting redone in August. The area will be closed to boat traffic, so the Northern portion of the lake will be inaccessible by boat. Not sure what they are going to do about fishing in the imediate area of the bridge. Thinking it will be off limits as well. As I understand the entire span, excluding the piers.

I'll probably be up there next week, and get more information from a friend that works for MODOT. Not an engineer or anything like that, so I don't know how detailed, or accurate it will be. 

[Johnsfolly]

Gator - thanks for the update. Keep us posted on what you find out. Thanks. 

[Gatorjet]

Well, the best inside info I have is the contract has been let, and work should begin in August. That bridge is pre-cast slabs set on piers, and they are replacing the slabs, then paving over them. Not replacing the piers. Suposed to take about 30 days. Sot the ramp will get about twenty nine miles closer for us, but no more convenient fishing off the bridge.

Didn't brave the heat to fish, but from folks I talked to the crappie have slowed considerably, but the channel cat are hitting pretty good.

Also, thaked to a guy that fishes the T causway bridge a lot when we saw him fishing the brige on upper Long Branch. He said things slowed up at Thomas Hill, so he came up there. He did have a pretty good bag of channel cat. 

[Gatorjet]

The latest word on the causeway is that the new bridge is all but completed, and the road will open to traffic on Thursday. Not sure if he meant Thursday Nov. 3, or Nov. 10. Either way, the bridge fishing is done, and it's back to the rocks.

The good news is the biat ramp that can be seen from my friend's cabin is again only a couple miles away. Not 31 like it has been for more than a year.