If any of y'all get out there be wary of the big water areas. That wind will follow the channel in places and will blow upstream in places. The river can get wrong side out pretty quick like that.

Thanks for the heads up. We're up here as goosepond... we'll be camping and fishing all weekend

You ain't just a woofin. Between Signal point and the river bridge is a really bad spot. Below the dam gets pretty ugly too.

It'll be blowing upstream from way below the dam to Brown's Creek' The big bend in the river at Guntersville proper will be rough

Without a doubt.

Psshh....no big deal in my 16 footer

Y'all act like y'all are skeered! I run boats all the time in that kind of wind. Just don't cross it and you'll be ok

My favorite launch was always Marshall County Park #2. They changed the rules and now only campers at the park can use that launch. I mostly fished within a half mile of the park when I put in there and usually caught all the big bream I wanted. Now, in order to fish those places the 2 closest ramps are at each end of Warrenton causeway and if the wind gets up you got a rough, and sometimes dangerous, trip back to the ramp. Sucks!

Do you get your boat fixed Wiley?

Yep. Dremel tool cut the key out of the crankshaft just enough to tap a new key in good and tight with a small hammer and I punched the other half out of the flywheel. Didn't buy a new flywheel nut but I put blue Locktite on it and torqued it to 105 ftlbs. Got 2 spare Woodruff keys for it too. I ended up buying 3 new punch sets at Harbor Freight that I've been needing for years so the total cost was about $100 to get back on the water.

Damn little keys were $10 each including shipping

Remounted the transducer for the new Helix 7 to the center of the hole shot plate and used Lexel to hopefully seal screw holes where others had mounted transducers over the years. If it don't leak I'll mount the other plastic block over that area and mount the Lowrance transducer to the block. No more holes in the transom. If it does still leak I gotta jack it up off the trailer and check under the bunks. AND if it leaks I'll leave whatever water is in it at the ramp so when it's on the trailer I'll hopefully see where it's coming out.

You think guntersville is bad, get you some wheeler. I've been on Guntersville in some pretty bad winds and is in no way compared to wheeler

Yea, ya'll testing them yamahas with the wind at your back, huh?

any of ya'll seen those pictures or videos from that elite tourney last weekend. That was crazy stuff.

That sucks for anyone wanting to fish that side of the river in that area without having to make a long run. Seems like for a county park it would be open to the public instead of just the campers there.


Wind on Wheeler from the stumps to Brown's Ferry, and then from there to Elk, darn sure isn't a walk in the park. Can get pretty hairy darn quick.

I was planning on going this morning, but the wind forecast scared me off. Don't won't to tow The Beast all that way just to turn around and go home.

Me and a buddy went Thursday morning with 50 mph winds and white caps .We caught at least 60 stripe on top water. it was awesome. We almost canceled the trip. Glad we didnt.

I stayed out till 1100 and the whitecaps started rolling so I loaded up and left Honeycomb. The big bend in the river was wrong side out when I crossed the big bridge.

And, the boat didn't leak a drop, ran like a champ but I think I gotta put the Helix transducer back on the transom. The side imaging didn't look right and I couldn't pin down why it looked that way.

Its rough out here

Looks REAL rough out there. Didnt see a single boat on the main river while ago.