03-31-2022, 02:06 PM
(03-31-2022, 01:52 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote:(03-31-2022, 01:17 PM)Redrebel Wrote: I’m close to Willard but it scares me to go there. Wife and I bottomed out the SUP so I can only imagine what I would do to my nice red paint on the lund. Any advice on what to avoid will be helpful. Thanks!
I had no idea what a SUP was, so I looked it up, guess it is a Stand Up Paddle board. Not really sure how you would bottom that out, unless you tried to go into the perminate Summer boat dock area of North marina last Fall, when it was very shallow. The water level is shallow to the East of the North marina launch but as long as you watch your depth finder and go right out the channel, after you launch, you will be fine. After you go out the channel, do not turn left or right for 50 to 75 yards and you should be fine out in the main part of the lake. In the next month or so as the water level goes up, it will be even better but by June or so I would expect the water level to start dropping again to the point by mid Summer it might be tough to even launch at Willard, unless we get a very wet Spring and Summer. Also because the South marina is so shallow, until you get into the channel, I would not launch there and if you do, only nose up to the dock, it is very shallow with big pices of concrete right below the outer part of the dock.
Thanks for the tips. It was last summer and the water level was pretty low. It was off the shore near the north marina.Made for fun times! Easy fix on the paddle boards.