Water Is Dropping/Ramps Are Closing

[Skeeter Steve]

BE AWARE!

Only one ramp is open at Victoria (left side).

I look for more ramps to close by the end of next week, if they
keep pulling water.

.........Gaults and Kellogg on the north end
.........Gatewood and Red Top in the central
.........Blockhouse on the south

........Are still accessible with dock access. Dock access will soon
go away on most of these ramps.
That is a good thing for anglers, less pleasure boaters.

Be careful and remember to raise the motor when backing in
and pulling out.


Ranger Steve
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[soretoe]

As soon as those docks come out of the water most of the pleasure boaters go away.....yipeeeeee ;D

[1kicker]

Steve, you are correct about water dropping. I let my dock out Friday with wheels at waters edge, this morning water is pulled about 2.5 feet from the wheels, will need to take out again. Looks like an early retirement of my pontoon this year.

Richard

[Mike Bucca]

YES!!! Come on water drop!!!! . With school back in session and the water dropping I see good fishing on the horizon .

Mike

[troyboy30]

They increased water draw through the d**n to provide water to our mean ole neighbor of a state

[Killian]

Does there happen to be a number to call to find out closed ramp info? Or is it just word of mouth and "oh crap I drove to my ramp and it's closed"?

[Mike Bucca]

Killian, Thats a good question. I don't think any ramps areas are going to close anytime soon. Now there might be 1 ramp out of the 3 that is shallower than the others. But the first ramps to close are usually Delta and Tanyard. I rarely use those 2 ramping areas.

But to raise awareness to all. Before you launch be sure to walk down to the waters edge to make sure you got enough room to launch. Launching is the easy part if your on a shallow ramp it's the take out that you need to be careful with.

Mike

[Mike Bucca]

BTW, Just in case anyone is curious I have the ramp height and slope gradiant on the Cool Articles part of the forum.

Here is a link to the spreadsheet all on the same page.

allatoonabass.proboards76.com/index.cgi?board=articles&action=display&thread=1182906321

Mike

[bassboy1]

Theoretically, there is a white stripe 20 or 25 feet from the bottom of the ramp. If you see that, you should be careful.

[bpettus1]

just from everyones experince can we tell what we know about the ramps that we know about like gaults if your looking at the water the far left side has a huge hole in it when water is way down not the best place to bring a smaller truck to pull something out and red top has two sink holes going on at the top of both side right now sure would be nice to get that area repaved or at least pot filled

[rufishin]

I am finally going to be able to get out Friday a.m. after about a 4 week lay off (work) Which ramp is recommended to use with the water level low. I will be putting in by myself.
Rich

[dannyp]

Rich I would go with Galts either middle ramp or ramp closet to the dock. Stay away from the other one.