I am not trying to ruin your trip but wished I had heard this before I went the first time. Water is the color of tea with lilly pads & allot of grass with trees cut off under the water 6"-12" everywhere. Good fishing trip with good scenery nothing else like it around here. Would go back anytime but I have learned my lesson.

I will never take my boat again. We where on the main lake and a little storm kicked up, on any other lake we would fish during storms like this, no lightning just rain and 10 - 15 mph winds. I looked around and everyone was gone, we wondered why and in about 5 minutes we found out. Waves and swells 4' - 5' came from nowhere and filled the boat with water to our waists my bilge could not keep up. When the boat went up we were above everything around us and when the boat would go down we would almost hit the bottom. Small diameter tree stumps and steel posts used to anchor duck blinds are sticking up higher than the boat, we are within 300 yards of the ramp and could not get there. We where lucky God was watching over us or something would have rammed through the bottom of the boat and maybe through one of us. Now what we learned was when the wind starts to kick up go to the grass canals behind the tree lines, thats where everyone else was and stay there until the storm passed. I bent my trolling motor shaft, scratched up my boat, and bent my main prop.

They have Real Foot rental boats there with a 5 hp briggs & straton engines that have a horizontal shaft out the back of the boat with prop half in and half out the water, they are made this way for a reason. I would strongly suggest you rent one of them and maybe take a cheap trolling motor & battery you don't care about with a good rope to pull it up when you need to and believe you will need to.

Knowing this ahead of time would have made my first trip much more enjoyable and allot less expensive.