I have been out on our lake exactly TWO times this year. This drought has the lake 6' lower than average, and there is a LOT of beach, and a LOT of junk exposed.
Have to pull boat off of trailer by hand, push it by hand out past the no-wake zone. Some of this is knee or calf deep, then slowly gets to about waist deep by the time we get to the no-wake buoys. Only THEN can we drop the outdrive and motor away, carefully, with GPS and lake-depth maps activated, depthfinder and fishfinder ON, and paying very close attention to our surroundings.
If we stay in the channel, it can be 20-30' deep, but if we venture much outside that, we quickly hit sandbars, and there are MANY new islands, now fully vegetated and inhabited by the people who can now walk out to them with tents and coolers (and motorcycles and 4-wheelers) in tow, from the shoreline neighborhoods.
Here is a picture of a 7-yr old kid in knee-deep water halfway to the no-wake buoys...:banghead:
Have to pull boat off of trailer by hand, push it by hand out past the no-wake zone. Some of this is knee or calf deep, then slowly gets to about waist deep by the time we get to the no-wake buoys. Only THEN can we drop the outdrive and motor away, carefully, with GPS and lake-depth maps activated, depthfinder and fishfinder ON, and paying very close attention to our surroundings.
If we stay in the channel, it can be 20-30' deep, but if we venture much outside that, we quickly hit sandbars, and there are MANY new islands, now fully vegetated and inhabited by the people who can now walk out to them with tents and coolers (and motorcycles and 4-wheelers) in tow, from the shoreline neighborhoods.
Here is a picture of a 7-yr old kid in knee-deep water halfway to the no-wake buoys...:banghead:
