Quote Originally Posted by Moveon View Post
With the water being so low this year and boats powering back onto the trailer with 200 HP engines there end of the launch ramp can easily be overrun. At the end of the concrete launch ramp there is a big hole or drop off. This is caused when the prop washes away the soil at the end of the ramp.

IDNR puts gravel at the end of the launch ramp but all it takes is for a few big bass boats to power back onto their boat trailers and the gravel is washed away again.

I don't understand why guys can't get out of the drivers seat and go to the front of the boat and pull their boat up the last few inches using the trailer wench and rope. Instead the gun the motor to almost full throttle and power the boat back up the trailer the last foot or so. Then the boat slides back down the trailer and they have to do it again and again. Good grief.

One needs a four wheel drive truck or jeep to pull a trailer tire out of that hole at the end of the ramp.

I wish that they would extend the concrete out another 10 ft or so and solve this problem. There is no way that everyone will stop powering the boat onto their trailers. So just add more concrete to the ramp and be done with this. That's the only real permanent solution I can think of right now.

I can't launch my boat with the ramp this way. I'll have to have someone pull my truck and loaded boat trailer out of the water at the ramp if my back trailer tires drop off the end of the ramp with the boat on the trailer.

And while IDNR is at it they can add a boat dock there too.
well obviously you dont have a boat that needs loaded like this. mine does. you cannot pull mine up by hand. my boat is long enough that if i back in to where that would be possible,it will not go over the roller. it goes under it. my old boat would work just fine. i could load it without the motor period and i did .but its only 17ft. a longer boat changes this alot. so, alot of peopl arent doing this just for fun...