old lynn creek area

[Quillback]

5 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

What blows my mind is that so many people seem to have so much free time these days.  Does nobody have to work anymore?  

You have all these people that are obviously millionaires, yet they never have to work.  Retired at 35 !   

I guess I'm jealous.  

Yeah that's what I'm always asking my fishing buddies when we go fishing on a Wednesday and there's a bass boat for about every hundred yards of shoreline.  Who the heck does all the work around here?  And if they are not out fishing or water skiing, seems they are out driving around.  Cars all over the place at 10 AM during the week.  Just too many of us.

[Jim Y]

IMHO, cruisers should be restricted to about 5-7 MPH on LOZ.  In return, the driver of any boat going 5-7 MPH or less would not be subject to DWI laws.

[WeekendWarrior]

38 minutes ago, Jim Y said:

IMHO, cruisers should be restricted to about 5-7 MPH on LOZ.  In return, the driver of any boat going 5-7 MPH or less would not be subject to DWI laws.

That is when they are at there worst when going slow, if they throw a wake/roller over 2 foot they need a ticket but it won't happen. The water patrol up here is pulled up to gas dock at Millers flirting with the dock girls for hours at a time

[Jim Y]

Ok, whatever idle speed is for cruisers is what I meant.  I would think that plow speed would be closer to 10 MPH than 5, but I'm going by my bass boat speeds.

[WeekendWarrior]

32 minutes ago, Jim Y said:

Ok, whatever idle speed is for cruisers is what I meant.  I would think that plow speed would be closer to 10 MPH than 5, but I'm going by my bass boat speeds.

I hear you Jim, doubt it will ever happen. Just to much revenue as in gas money and money talks.

[Jim Y]

I agree and the same for limiting the size of boats on LOZ. Fortunately, IMO, the lake is pretty much fully developed and it is harder to develop property than in the past. So I think that the current conditions will prevail in the next 10 years.

[garyw]

just got back from loz. son rented a runabout. if i wanted to fight traffic i'd go back to work in st louis.   just crazy. my son's been trying to bet me to buy a condo there............................he changed his mind this weekend.  lol

so now it table rock or bull shoals.

 

and the search goes on

 

[fishinwrench]

That's how it all happened.  City folk came here and liked it, so when they came back they brought the city with them.   

Now they've lost sight of what it was they liked so much about this place to begin with.   Woulda been easier to just build a lake in their city.  

[Hydro 205]

I think it would help if the put no wake areas up. Like in the glaze arm. Put one about every ten miles. About a half mile long. That would slow everyone down some. What happens is the 40+foot yachts put off such a big wave. Then the smaller boats have to plow to keep from getting swamped. I think they will do something but not soon enough. 

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, Hydro 205 said:What happens is the 40+foot yachts put off such a big wave. Then the smaller boats have to plow to keep from getting swamped. 

Exactly.   Wakes crashing into each other from all angles creates a giant washing machine effect.  Driving through it is one thing.... Fishing in it is a whole 'nother thing. 

Used to be you could duck inside a cove and escape it, but now it's so rough on the main channel that everybody has to do their tubing and skiing in the coves, so they aren't much better.   Fishermen just keep allowing themselves to be pushed further and further up the creeks, or into tiny coves too small to do anything else in.  

The guides from the mid-lake area claim to be booked solid, and it makes me wonder....Where the hell are y'all taking these people to fish ?    LOL