05-30-2023, 10:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-30-2023, 10:51 PM by FishfulThinkin.)
(05-30-2023, 08:57 PM)Therapist Wrote: The solution is to go early. When I fish Deer Creek, Jordanelle, and sometime Rockport, I try to be on the water at first light. The "Parks People" don't make that easy because they mostly don't open the gates before 6. I will fish till 10:30 or 11:00 depending on how the "power Squadron" are behaving, then get off before it gets to crazy. We all need to encourage the Parks folks to get barcode readers on all the entrances to the parks so fisherman can get on the water early to avoid the crowd. You can also fish later in the afternoon, 4PM or later, they are worn out by then and you can have a pretty calm late afternoon and evening !!
I use the early morning method and I usually can get a few good hours in before the craziness starts. I was recently fishing for walleye at Deer Creek and had a quiet peaceful morning going until 6:30 when the first power boat arrived. It wasn't the wake that bothered me but music blaring from the stereo that could be heard loud and clear from well over a mile away... and I'm pretty much deaf! I wish they could enforce a noise ordinance. As for evenings after 4:00, forget it, at least at DC. Weekday evenings are even busier than daytime. If you are on the water until sundown at Deer Creek on a summer evening, you will wait for up to 30 minutes to retrieve your boat. The line of boat trailers sometimes stretches from the ramp to the parking lot right before dark.