Eagle Rock boat launch ramp

[sfiser]

1 hour ago, Carl W said:

All the launches at Beaver COE parks are open and the courtesy docks are useable.  I launched at Rocky Branch yesterday and both ramps and docks in the park are useable. Lost bridge, prarie creek, clifty, and beaver dam ramps are all in good shape.

 

Do you think you could launch a boat there?  Looks like you might could.  How did the water look to you?   I have Friday off and I would prefer to fish Tablerock versus Beaver.  My  options at Beaver would be the Lost Bridge North for my best chance I think. 

Carl

 

[Quillback]

1 hour ago, Carl W said:

Do you think you could launch a boat there?  Looks like you might could.  How did the water look to you?   I have Friday off and I would prefer to fish Tablerock versus Beaver.  My  options at Beaver would be the Lost Bridge North for my best chance I think. 

Carl

I've seen Big M COE ramp when the water was this high, basically the parking lot is under water.  I have seen people launch from the road that leads into the parking lot and park their rigs alongside the road.  Now it is also possible they may close the road that leads to the ramp.  Hard to say without going down there and taking a look, but I don't plan on  launching there anytime soon. 

[Carl W]

2 minutes ago, Quillback said:

I've seen Big M COE ramp when the water was this high, basically the parking lot is under water.  I have seen people launch from the road that leads into the parking lot and park their rigs alongside the road.  Now it is also possible they may close the road that leads to the ramp.  Hard to say without going down there and taking a look, but I don't plan on  launching there anytime soon. 

What keeps you away Quill?  Is it the launching part or the water?  Just curious since I know or think I am anyways going to fish on Friday.  Haha.

[Carl W]

25 minutes ago, sfiser said:

 

Thanks sfiser.  I went last night for maybe 2 hours or even less out of Prairie Creek and it was chocolate milk to me and I could not get a bite or even a miss.  I was trying to fish a buzz bait which I don't fish often and was struggling.  That was the pattern that Mccombs won it with on Beaver lake on the FLW this past weekend.  I am thinking he was fishing better water than what I was.  I never left Prairie Creek.

[Quillback]

It's the launching part, especially if I am by myself.  I like having a useable courtesy dock.  I love to fish, but not if I have to go above and beyond the call of duty to get into the water.  I can fish here in BV, or go over to Beaver where it sounds like the ramps are useable. 

[sfiser]

2 minutes ago, Carl W said:

Thanks sfiser.  I went last night for maybe 2 hours or even less out of Prairie Creek and it was chocolate milk to me and I could not get a bite or even a miss.  I was trying to fish a buzz bait which I don't fish often and was struggling.  That was the pattern that Mccombs won it with on Beaver lake on the FLW this past weekend.  I am thinking he was fishing better water than what I was.  I never left Prairie Creek.

I had a pretty good day pitching jigs and plastics in the cleaner water around the clifty arms.  I don't like fishing that chocolate milk water so I ran from that.  Rocky branch had a nice stain with 3-4 feet of visibility and clifty had probably 5-6 feet of visibility. 

[Carl W]

42 minutes ago, Quillback said:

It's the launching part, especially if I am by myself.  I like having a useable courtesy dock.  I love to fish, but not if I have to go above and beyond the call of duty to get into the water.  I can fish here in BV, or go over to Beaver where it sounds like the ramps are useable. 

I am with you on the ramp.  I will do it but, I don't like it and I never get wet!  I should not have said that!  Haha.

[176champion]

I get my feet wet launching boat all the time, unless i crawl in the back of my truck and walk out and get on trailer, which is not to bad to do on my Ranger pickup since it's a step side...but im working on a full size Ford now for a boat totter and not going to be able to climb in the back of that one.  

[rps]

In 2011 and again in 2015, within a week of the huge rise, fishing settled and became excellent. Here in the upper end, the water took some time to clear. The fish moved up to the brush line for a while and then settled back to the normal waterline - in other words 10 to 14 feet. They held there long past when they do in non-high water years.

My PB walleye and the runner up came in July of 2011. One was in eight feet of water. They other was suspended and hit a crank running 12 feet deep.

Both in 2011 and 2015, the high water meant a longer morning top water bite, although both years they preferred a buzz bait to the walk the dog. A WP will probably slay them.

I figure we have two, maybe three months, of better than average water to fish. Find a place to put the boat in and enjoy. (For me, that means I call Colin, the HI concessionaire, meet him, and have him ferry me to my boat.

[That was hard. Putting a positive spin on muddy water is difficult. Muddy water makes me feel like I am back in Oklahoma and have been told I must fish Lake Eufala.]

[Bill Babler]

Most of us that do this everyday don't get anything wet but the boat. You should not have to get wet to launch or trailer your boat. When launching back your boat in until the bunks are wet. That is before it floats. Pull up a bit where you can unhook and climb in over the bow. If you have a new style trailer or one with the bow steps you can just climb right in. Even when I was using a walker I had no trouble and I didn't even have the trailer bow steps. You don't have to float the boat on a trailer to launch it.

When trailering, again back your trailer in and get the bunks wet. Pull it completely out and then just back that trailer in until only about 3ft. of your back bunk is in the water. Your boat will slid right on and up on the wet bunks. It will stay right in the middle and follow them to the bow stop. If you are a bit short within a foot or two, hook up the bow ring to the crank and make it very tight. Pull the boat out and when you get to the top of the ramp on level ground while the rig is still pulling forward hit the brake. The boat will slide right into the correct position. I don't mean at 20 mph, I mean as you are slowly rolling to a stop. Guides and professional fishermen have been loading and unloading like this since I was a teenager, or the beginning of time. Good Luck