Wake Boat Blues

[fishinwrench]

4 hours ago, vernon said:

My rule of thumb used to be to never set foot in a boat on that lake from Memorial Day to Labor Day.  Then it was modified to between May 1st and October 1st.

Now I just don't go near the place at all. 

Ever.  

That Ranger Z521 is like a peanut in a blender on that lake.

Too old and cranky to deal with it and Table Rock is on the chopping block now too.

Too many other people out there having "fun" for me to be able to too.

I hear this exact sentiment repeated 40-50 times every year.   I don't understand why everyone thinks that to enjoy a good day of fishing you must launch at one end of the lake.....and run to the other.   Just admit it.....you aren't wanting to FISH, you are wanting to boat ride/sight-see, and call it "fishing". 

There are 7-9 launch sites on Lake O where you can have a perfectly good day fishing, even on a holiday weekend, and not feel like a wine cork in a washing machine.  

[vernon]

On 7/27/2020 at 12:25 PM, fishinwrench said:

I hear this exact sentiment repeated 40-50 times every year.   I don't understand why everyone thinks that to enjoy a good day of fishing you must launch at one end of the lake.....and run to the other.   Just admit it.....you aren't wanting to FISH, you are wanting to boat ride/sight-see, and call it "fishing". 

There are 7-9 launch sites on Lake O where you can have a perfectly good day fishing, even on a holiday weekend, and not feel like a wine cork in a washing machine.  

No sight seeing here.  Heck, we'd already seen every place that we wanted to get to a hundred times.  We just wanted to get from one fishing spot to another and then back without getting beat to death.  When we went we almost always stayed at a resort down by the dam (cause I could get a great deal thru my military affiliation) and kept the boat in one of their slips.  We  never ran more than five or six miles at the most up the channel and usually more like two or three.  

If a guy lived nearby or had a place to keep his boat and trailer reasonably accessible then what you describe would certainly be the way to go.  And we did just that quite a few times back in the day.  

But now when it's just me and Kathy with nowhere close or safe to park the boat and trailer, loading unloading launching and repeating just ain't practical or worth the trouble.

It was fun for a time and we had some great days of fishing but it just got to where it wasn't fun anymore and that was the end of it for us.

Unfortunately, Table Rock is rapidly approaching the same point.  I don't expect anybody else to give up what they enjoy just because of me.  When it's no longer a good time I'll just go somewhere else or find something different to do.

Just too old and lazy now to deal with what it takes and to be honest, whether I catch 'em or not isn't really all that important anymore either.  

I guess as Mr. Babler likes to say, we "just ain't that mad at 'em".

Gettin' old kinda sucks.......