Wake / No Wake for Opener

Word is that nice private little ramp won’t be open by Saturday. They still have boats in front of the gate.

Drove past the Hudson launch tonight. It is not looking good. It is higher or close to what it was last Friday. I don’t see it dropping in time to open the Hudson launch for opener.

The Hudson landing still looks the same last night. I drove up to the North Hudson ferry landing too. If you are planning on launching there, you will not be able to turn around at the bottom of the hill. You will need to back your trailer down the hill. There is also only parking spots for about 6 – 7 rigs with trailers. If you don’t get one of these spots, you’ll have to deal with dropping your trailer off at home.

The cove has a nice ramp too, but very limited parking too. I’d guess about 10 spots. Tickets in Troy township are very spendy from what I’ve been told.

Beanies parking lot still looks to have water in it. It looks like they have a small raft along shore. Not sure if that is meant to help launch boats. Without their normal dock, I think Beanies is going to be a zoo Saturday morning.

This doesn’t leave alot of choices around the Hudson area. I’ve got a plan for the weekend that I will be sure to share at Borderline tomorrow night.

Oh yea. The GTG crowd will be fishing Sat fo sho!!!
Not to sure about the other million guys.

Probably a dumb question, but what is the GTG crowd?

Plan on fishing down there all weekend, and was just trying to figure out my best plan?

St Croix opener get together tomorrow night. check the post. Everyone welcome.

Nice, that sounds like a good time, I will do my best to be there!?

Update-Bluffs may not open Sat. Will know tomorrow and post findings.

As already stated, if the Bluffs opens before the weekend (hint hint) please remind everyone to take a right out of the lagoon! There’s a submerged rock jetty that you will hit if you go straight out. As mentioned, the main reason for delaying the open is safety and therefore liability on the county’s part. Spread the word and it may be open (hint hint).

There’s no way for a new person to know. No way. They need to erect some permanant warning signs to at least give a guy a chance when the water is covering up the rocks and no buoys are out yet. I would think such a sign would be really easy. I would even go so far as to rally people for a small donation so we could buy one but I highly doubt the authorities would allow us to help. You think?

It appears as though the 1.5″ of rain is finally draining into the Croix. The level is at 83.12 and holding, looks like it may be no wake tomorrow.

Here’s MN DNR news release from yesterday…
MN DNR – St Croix nowake

…at .13 feet (1.5 inches) above no-wake stage I’m holding out hope that I’ll be able to “run” the river tomorrow. I’ll have my Droid X in one hand and the tiller handle in the other.

Maybe if we pulled the Afton Princess out of the water it would drop that 1.5?

As of yesterday, Hudson launch is still 3/4 covered with water. Hopefully that goes down quickly so we can use it this weekend!

ET

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Maybe if we pulled the Afton Princess out of the water it would drop that 1.5?

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not much hope for this weekend, maybe the weekend after. How’s the new Terrova?

The Terrova is awesome and the I-Pilot is insane. Best purchase I’ve made in years!

I went from a 12V 55 lb Powerdrive which was underpowered for my boat, to the 24V 80 lb Terrova with Ipilot and US2. Unbelievable difference and the features on the Terrova are mind boggling.

ET

I was out last night. Many people dont give a #*^$ and are going full speed up and down the lower section of river.
They know there are no repercussions and the likelihood of being caught is next to nothing. That pretty much says it all about the people themselves.

83.5 right now, looks to be way too close to call for Saturday right now, come on baby…..

No wardens out last night had at least 5 boats cruise through Hudson channel making a good wake.

Drove by the Hudson launch this am and not much movement. Maybe 1-2 feet but most of the launch still underwater.

C’mon!

Is the St. Croix still no wake or has the ban been removed?

Still no wake. Not even close. You can track here. Must be below 83 ont the graph.
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?gage=stlm5&wfo=mpx

Still no wake. Based on the chart predictions, it looks like next Tuesday before it is below 683. You could just follow everyone else and ignore it though.

Be interesting to hear from one of the “wakers” reading this post describing why they do it.

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Be interesting to hear from one of the “wakers” reading this post describing why they do it.

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My guess is they think : who’s going to stop them?

Can’t wait to get out tomorrow and when they fly up to me the camera and tip and sherriff will be called, on a side note if ypu see a tan and green sportfish out there and an active 3 yr old wave and say hi

I’ll be out there like clock work, launching at 4am and fishing till dark, can’t believe how many boaters blow off the no wake, I’ve even told people the river is no wake and they just don’t care, could of wrote a avg. of 5 tickets a day this week pretty sad!

As of 5/7/11 the river level is at 683.30 . It looks like the river has been dropping .01 about every 2 hours and about .15 every 24 hours.

Here’s the website I use

Rules are to be fallowed that I understand. The shoreline must be protected above all else that I understand. Many do not care about the damage that may occur or they just do not understand that the accumulative effect of large waves hitting the shoreline damages the shoreline.

I know I’m preaching to the choir here but is it worth getting our undies in a bunch over a few inches of water over the mark set by people that undoubtedly now more about the going ons of the river system than a laymen ?

I say yes! It is the matter of respect and love for the body of water I/we treasure.

I feel better now that I got that off my chest,