Made a run up to Coldwater this morning only to get blown out before I launched the boat! The forecast called for ESE wind... but it was hard out of the NE there. Nice day for a drive though, and Mt St Helens was particularly nice to look at...
The road up up was clear and dry, (4' snow berms at the top) ..they are rebuilding a bridge at the 17 mile mark, (one lane) .. and the ramp area was clear enough. I'll try it again when it warms up again and the wind gives me a break...
Made a run up to Coldwater this morning only to get blown out before I launched the boat! The forecast called for ESE wind... but it was hard out of the NE there. Nice day for a drive though, and Mt St Helens was particularly nice to look at...
The road up up was clear and dry, (4' snow berms at the top) ..they are rebuilding a bridge at the 17 mile mark, (one lane) .. and the ramp area was clear enough. I'll try it again when it warms up again and the wind gives me a break...
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Put a little electric motor on that pontoon and you could have run out past the island and wind drifted in.
I use a 35lb thrust and a milk crate bungeed to the back platform for the battery.
Works well.
Put a little electric motor on that pontoon and you could have run out past the island and wind drifted in.
I use a 35lb thrust and a milk crate bungeed to the back platform for the battery.
Works well.
Haha... the grass is always....er.... water is alway bluer at the far end! I did once get caught up at the NE end with my canoe when the wind came up... think it was dark before I got to the ramp after 3 hours of hard paddling! So... about to the Rock is as wild as I get anymore.
I never get more than a 1/3 of a mile from Hummick Rock and always do real well up there. I used to go to the far end all the time, but have found it’s just as good fishing at the launch end.
I would be leery of heading to the far end, and then having westerly thermals pick up throughout the afternoon, finding some trout and lingering too long back there...requiring a battle against wind & chop for much of the way back. An electric motor will help.
At least those gnarly easterlies blow you back toward the launch.
I try to pick a day with a mellower wind forecast for there, with a couple of alternate lakes on my contingency plan.
Heads up on new regulations for Coldwater (not that it will effect most anglers on this site).
Starting in July the regulations will change from a 1 fish, 16” minimum to 1 fish, 18” minimum limit.
I take my driftboat and the 101 Minnkota all over the lake.
Bigger fish down deep and further out.
More solitude as well.
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