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Post pics from the boat ramp!

Some places have ramps.

Some other don't.
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Done it for years (Bullshoals Lake, AR); just need to be slow and steady.
This picture shows the slope a little bit better.
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HangOutdoors said:
Wow, those ramps look fantastic. Compared to those, mine are all shit. :( I would be embarrassed to post pics of the ramps around here and on this side of Lake St. Clair.
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Well, I wouldn't call them all shit at Harley... I just try to find the ones with the least amount of goose shit on the docks! ?

I always thought it was nice to have something like 9 launch and 9 retrieval ramps, though during the fishing tournament craziness it seems people use whichever ramps them want (launch in a retrieval ramp, retrieve in a launch ramp), that and folks power loading right next to the big signs that say don't do that are my main pet peeves.

DNR was supposed to renovate Harley last year iirc, but that obviously fell through due to the wuflu. Maybe in another year or two they will get back to that. :rolleyes:?
 
Looks like a nice ramp to me, @swatski
I don't see any big ruts in the gravel or kids swimming where you launch. I'm envious.
Is this where you have to go through that 18" deep channel to get out?
 
anmut said:
we're going to need the full story
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About 10 years ago we were surfing with Artur, our crazy Russian comrade, when we ran across a shallow area. It was early in the season and we had not learned how the river had changed over the winter. It is not uncommon to pump a little mud. Fortunately, we don't have a lot of gravel or sand that could damage the impellor.
 
AmesJainchill said:
Well, I wouldn't call them all shit at Harley... I just try to find the ones with the least amount of goose shit on the docks! ?

I always thought it was nice to have something like 9 launch and 9 retrieval ramps, though during the fishing tournament craziness it seems people use whichever ramps them want (launch in a retrieval ramp, retrieve in a launch ramp), that and folks power loading right next to the big signs that say don't do that are my main pet peeves.

DNR was supposed to renovate Harley last year iirc, but that obviously fell through due to the wuflu. Maybe in another year or two they will get back to that. :rolleyes:?
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The Admiral prefers to launch at Metro Beach, sigh, have to have a ladder to get on and off the dock and have fell through a broken board on another. Forget using fenders there most of the time as well. Even the ramps at Harley can get a bit messy.

I agree the power loading really irks me. I drive the boat on sort of, but go slow and cut the engines as the nose gets to the trailer guides. When the boat comes to a stop I still have 4 feet or so to winch it on.

I see people all the time in their big ass bass boats power loading all the way, gunning it. Sucks.
 
buckbuck said:
Looks like a nice ramp to me, @swatski
I don't see any big ruts in the gravel or kids swimming where you launch. I'm envious.
Is this where you have to go through that 18" deep channel to get out?
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Yes, that one is not bad, if I'm patient and smooth, otherwise things can happen - I had on occasion slid down on that gravel, that makes for a white-knuckling moment usually.

But, sometimes there really is not a ramp - here we launched over a river bank as the ramp was underwater during a flood, wish I had better pics but I was... multitasking, lol. That embankment was just soaked mud, launching there was a pretty crazy.
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suke said:
This is my local ramp. It's really nice, but parking is tight. It's normally a very laid back and empty lake until this past summer, in which like every lake turned into a shit show.
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Same ramp as above
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This was my all time favorite "ramp"(haha) from last summer. Nothing better than pushing a button and your boat was in the water.
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My favorite local ramp. It's a pay ramp which you can get a season pass to. Normally also a very empty ramp.....except for this last summer. It was so full it got to the point you couldn't really get your truck/trailer out of a spot. View attachment 140685
My old boat and new boat side by side with the new owner. First day for both of us out on our new boats. Same ramp as the first 2 pics. View attachment 140687
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Great pics. We're big fans of the Seaforth ramp, too. Didn't get our boat until mid-September and it was pretty quiet over there by that point. It was nice that it gave us time to practice our routine outside of the peak of summer craziness, but I'm not looking forward to the zoo of next summer.
 
that mud wake. ha!
 
Oops.

Is that a boat trailer that failed? It doesn't even look like a boat trailer... Did they try to put the boat onto a cargo trailer?
 
Ok, you may have seen our landing in the Brag/vent about not boating. But we are only three months away from ice out.... Potentially.

 
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We rented a house on Nolin Lake in KY one year. When we showed up at the ramp to drop the boat in... this guy was hogging the ramp and taking forever to retrieve! ? They couldn’t get the trailer to telescope out so they hooked a van to the end of the trailer and did a tractor pull with the semi smoking tires until it popped loose. It was very cool to see something that large come out of the water.
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I was waiting for a flare gun to come out - kind of a Mad Max on water.
 
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