Launching with bunk trailer

Red Eye wrote:

All wrong.
Anyone that suggests practice before opener is dead wrong. The only true way to learn is a nice spring weekend on the river or on walleye opener. Nothing teaches you faster than that kind of pressure.
P.S. this only applies if you are a decent human being and actually care if you are holding others up.

Nothing worse than the guy waiting in line to unload his boat with all gear in his truck, cover still on boat, etc and waits until its his turn to start getting ready. I can give people a pass for trouble backing, but they dont get a pass for not being prepared.

Amen!

I can be a very patient guy when it comes to sitting in freezing weather 20ft up a bow stand or staring down a spear hole for hours. Or dealing with my 9yr old. But other peoples stupidity and lack of caring about other people does not sit well. Might not be very minnesotan of me, but they will hear about it.

CaptainMusky wrote:

Nothing worse than the guy waiting in line to unload his boat with all gear in his truck, cover still on boat, etc and waits until its his turn to start getting ready. I can give people a pass for trouble backing, but they dont get a pass for not being prepared.

The people who tie up on the launch side of the dock and just sit there blocking it while someone else parks and walks back are the worst to me. It’s so incredibly oblivious to others.

eyeguy507 wrote:

had both…..and never going back to a roller. i also leave my safety chain on until my boat is in the water, then push it off, tie and park truck. easier with 2 people that know what they are doing. i still get in and out in around a minute by myself

Funny, never had anything but Roller and would never dream of anything else. It is so easy. Two of us at the landing this fall, the other waves me ahead after I ask “who’s first” so I go ahead. Get in, get the truck, back it down, pull the boat on and off I go – about 2 mins.
He gets up to the lot and says ( with a big smile) ” geez, you don’t even give a guy time to get his boat organized before heading to the dock” . Compliment taken.
I have a 20″ rope w eye hook that I latch onto the bow hook and she pulls right up ( trailer fenders have about 2″ showing) Windy is a little harder but not much. Pushes right off when unloading so a breeze.
When alone at the dock at my sisters in Rainy I do have to drive it over to a parking spot and drive it on the trailer initially but that’s not that often ( it’s a deep landing with nowhere to tie up to

Oh, chain is always on til I get in the water, last thing I unhook

I always pull off to the side away from the access to get the boat ready and one access I use quite often the parking lot is across the street so I pull in there first to get the boat ready and one time I had a guy thank me for it when I figured it should just be common courtesy. So there must just be that many people that either don’t know or care about others to be that inconsiderate, at lest at a ramp set up like that one.

I think we need signs up on what to do and not to do at the launch. But we all know no one would read them so whatever!

Reef W wrote:

The people who tie up on the launch side of the dock and just sit there blocking it while someone else parks and walks back are the worst to me. It’s so incredibly oblivious to others.

This is the worst. I use a few accesses that even have large signs on the dock that say “no parking, unload/load zone only” and people STILL park their boat there while they’re waiting for the vehicle or going to park. Of course that access can’t be used either until they move. That gets so old, especially when there are literally other designated docks to tie your boat to that aren’t in the actual access point.

John Rasmussen wrote:

I think we need signs up on what to do and not to do at the launch. But we all know no one would read them so whatever!

I think people can read them, they just don’t follow them.

Umy wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>eyeguy507 wrote:</div>
had both…..and never going back to a roller. i also leave my safety chain on until my boat is in the water, then push it off, tie and park truck. easier with 2 people that know what they are doing. i still get in and out in around a minute by myself

Funny, never had anything but Roller and would never dream of anything else. It is so easy. Two of us at the landing this fall, the other waves me ahead after I ask “who’s first” so I go ahead. Get in, get the truck, back it down, pull the boat on and off I go – about 2 mins.
He gets up to the lot and says ( with a big smile) ” geez, you don’t even give a guy time to get his boat organized before heading to the dock” . Compliment taken.
I have a 20″ rope w eye hook that I latch onto the bow hook and she pulls right up ( trailer fenders have about 2″ showing) Windy is a little harder but not much. Pushes right off when unloading so a breeze.
When alone at the dock at my sisters in Rainy I do have to drive it over to a parking spot and drive it on the trailer initially but that’s not that often ( it’s a deep landing with nowhere to tie up to

if you never had a bunk trailer than you would not know how much easier they are. nothing funner than trying to winch up your boat in heavy current up a steep ramp while the g force of a roller is trying to pull the boat back in the water. with a bunk, if you drop trailer in just right, the boat will not try to slide back. i fish just me and my dog 90% of the time and most of the landings are in current