Locking through

What radio channel do you use to contact the Lock Master, to get the status on the locks? As in barges locking through.

Thanks Rigger

To communicate with the locks you use channel 14 on your marine radio.

There is more detailed info on what channels to use and the phone numbers asociated with the locks on the Walleye Searchers Directory at http://www.walleyesearchers.com/directory.html

Dave Gulczinski

Most times it works better to contact the locks via cell phone. It seem like they always answer the phone, but don’t always answer pleasure boats requests to lock in a timely fashion.

Thanks for sharing the info guys. I have never locked through before so this is good usefull info. Thanks, Bill