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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | http://www.northlandoutdoors.com/2016/05/30/be-courteous-at-boat-ra...
It's simple and I'd LIKE to assume all of us do this...but please send to your newbie boat owner friends and your buddies who go "boating". |
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Location: oswego, il | Some ramps should have a visitor parking and bleachers for viewing. Sliver lake in Kenosha County would be a good place for it. I adhere to those rules. I had the DNR cut around me last Sunday to launch. Could not get the boat started. |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Go to the bar on Silver that has the private launch. Sit on the deck, order a bloody mary about about 8 or 9AM and watch the show. Done it, great entertainment. |
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | check out mckinley marina boat launch in milw some time on a nice calm warm sunny saturday.. holy keeerumba! |
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| I've said it before: you meet the most accomplished idiots at a boat launch. As long as YOU'RE not trying to launch or retrieve, it's great entertainment! |
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Location: MN | Bald Eagle public boat ramp in WBL.
All I can say is.... WOW.
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Location: Minnesota | Bald eagle all ways a good time |
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| Lake Independence MN ramp - a hand full of times each year i see a vehicle/trailer stuck up on the boulders in the trailer turn around loop
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Location: West Chester, OH | Chemi - 6/3/2016 10:49 AM
I've said it before: you meet the most accomplished idiots at a boat launch. As long as YOU'RE not trying to launch or retrieve, it's great entertainment!
Get a bucket of chicken, sit in the shade & watch the divorces begin! |
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| Nick59 - 6/3/2016 10:36 AM
Bald Eagle public boat ramp in WBL.
All I can say is.... WOW.
The circus is always at this launch.  |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | Musky Face - 6/3/2016 2:59 PM
Nick59 - 6/3/2016 10:36 AM
Bald Eagle public boat ramp in WBL.
All I can say is.... WOW.
The circus is always at this launch. :- )
It's may be the last circus with elephants. |
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Location: E. Tenn | Pulled into the lot at a local boat ramp, and got everything ready to go... Two other guys showed up, got in line, and started getting their rigs ready to launch..
All of a sudden this whiz bang drives right by, backs down the middle of the ramp, and proceeds to load his crap in his boat, along with Maw, the kid, Grandpa, and a truckful of stuff.. He then proceeds to grind on the starter for several minutes, before realizing the motor wouldn't start. He then pulls up a bit, unloads the family, and decides to try some redneck engineering right there..
After watching this debacle for twenty minutes, one of the other guys asked him how much longer he'd be, and got a bunch of attitude.. We decided it wasn't worth the trouble and went to another ramp.. Going by 25 min. later, he was still blocking the ramp..
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Location: E. Tenn | bllhogg - 6/3/2016 2:39 PM
Lake Independence MN ramp - a hand full of times each year i see a vehicle/trailer stuck up on the boulders in the trailer turn around loop
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Location: Ames, Iowa | If it's just me I don't go to busy ramps. Funniest ramp experience was at Little Wall Lake near Jewell, Iowa. Mom, dad in chairs having a snack on the dock watching the plump kiddies in the ramp wading/swimming. I told the kids "you'll want to get out of there", and proceeded to back down. Mom wasn't happy I left the boat at the end of the dock with the 2 stroke Evinrude smokin the place up. I'd like to think this happens only in Iowa but I'll bet it's more common than I know. |
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Location: MN | Then there's the ramps with folks fishing from the dock that get mad when they have to reel in while you unload your boat.
And of course there is a designated fishing dock about 50 yds away.
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Location: E. Tenn | Nick59 - 6/6/2016 7:45 AM
Then there's the ramps with folks fishing from the dock that get mad when they have to reel in while you unload your boat.
And of course there is a designated fishing dock about 50 yds away.
....and their stuff is piled up against the sign that says "No fishing from boat ramp".
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Location: Almond, WI | I was at a river boat launch a couple years back. Normally it's two lanes with a dock in the middle dividing the lanes, but they pulled the dock because of recent high water/flow and hadn't replaced it yet. This guy backed his truck into the middle of the launch, jackknifed his trailer to the left, and ran out of gas. Just in time for the afterwork rush at 5:30pm. |
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Location: MN | miket55 - 6/6/2016 9:05 AM
Nick59 - 6/6/2016 7:45 AM
Then there's the ramps with folks fishing from the dock that get mad when they have to reel in while you unload your boat.
And of course there is a designated fishing dock about 50 yds away.
....and their stuff is piled up against the sign that says "No fishing from boat ramp".
No doubt. |
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Location: Northern IL | Nick59 - 6/6/2016 6:45 AM
Then there's the ramps with folks fishing from the dock that get mad when they have to reel in while you unload your boat.
And of course there is a designated fishing dock about 50 yds away.
Pewaukee is a good one for that.
I've seen a lot of boat ramp humor over the years however the Kinkaid ramp on a summer Saturday or Sunday night has got to rank up there as one of the most consistent places for a good laugh. I've see where the cops sit at the ramp looking for a easy dui. that's almost cheating. |
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Location: MN | I was at a ramp on the St. Croix unloaded boat, moved it to the non ramp side out of the way and went to park.
Was by my self.
Came back and a family of four was fishing off end of dock using my boat as a storage shelf.
Tackle boxes, cooler, and rods.
Worst of all mom was smoking right over the gas cap with 22 gallons underneath tying on a hook.
Not a pleasant situation.... for them.
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| Saw someone's boat roll off of a roller trailer at the bone lake launch, hit the cement with a loud crack. Wouldn't have wanted to be that guy |
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| I have never understood fishing off the boat launch dock...is that even legal? |
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| As a child I fished of the boat ramp docks. If it wasn't a "busy period". I offered to hold boats some people let me some didn't, it's all good. Most people apologized for power loading but I knew that only made he walleyes hammer down on food. So after they didn't have any luck I would drop my jig in there propwash and nail an eye or two in front of them. But not before or after they were gone. |
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Location: Ames, Iowa | I was at a ramp on the Des Moines River north of DM many years ago (before cell phones) with my young wife. We saw a carload of older teenage/young 20's kids in the parking lot, after having come out of the river on a float. One guy so wasted and passed out his friends were carrying him into their car. A gal was running the show and looking like she was ready to drive outta there. Got a half mile up the road and flagged a state trooper. He headed for the ramp and had all of them (maybe 6-7) up against the car in 5 minutes. Boat ramps are vacation spots. |
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Location: Ames, Iowa | I was at a ramp on the Des Moines River north of DM many years ago (before cell phones) with my young wife. We saw a carload of older teenage/young 20's kids in the parking lot, after having come out of the river on a float. One guy so wasted and passed out his friends were carrying him into their car. A gal was running the show and looking like she was ready to drive outta there. Got a half mile up the road and flagged a state trooper. He headed for the ramp and had all of them (maybe 6-7) up against the car in 5 minutes. Boat ramps are vacation spots in Iowa. |
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