Warning, if you plan to retrieve your boat at at the WFDW boat ramp, East Cle Elm near the Teanaway it is difficult in high summer flows.
There is a strong sideways current from a side channel right at the ramp.
I turned my boat backwards and rowed like hell to make the ramp, but the strong current pushed me downstream away from the ramp.
I did a last minute ditch and threw half my body out of the boat, desperately grabbed a few roots from undercut bank, and muscled the boat back upstream inch by inch and root by root. Whew!
I landed here in the mid 2000s with no problem, but i am guessing it was in the fall during low flows.
Any others experience this? What is best operating procedures(s) for landing a 16ft aluminum drift boat at this ramp during summer flows (it was running 3500 cfs yesterday at Cle Elm
There is a strong sideways current from a side channel right at the ramp.
I turned my boat backwards and rowed like hell to make the ramp, but the strong current pushed me downstream away from the ramp.
I did a last minute ditch and threw half my body out of the boat, desperately grabbed a few roots from undercut bank, and muscled the boat back upstream inch by inch and root by root. Whew!
I landed here in the mid 2000s with no problem, but i am guessing it was in the fall during low flows.
Any others experience this? What is best operating procedures(s) for landing a 16ft aluminum drift boat at this ramp during summer flows (it was running 3500 cfs yesterday at Cle Elm