Bluegrass 3/11

[3ptbuck]

Went to Bluegrass for the first time today. Not much of a fishing report, went mainly to check the lake out but did catch 1 short.
Wanted to show you guys that fish there often what I saw. These guys launched this boat right after me. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...s/DSC00242.jpg
Then they drove around the ramp area in circles throwing out 3-4ft wakes. There was a CO walking back to his truck at Buck pit but unfortunately never came by. These guys did this for as long as it took me to idle to the far end of the pit. Does this happen often?

[raporter]

idiots and boats seem to find each other

[Embrey]

maybe you should have told them instead of taking pictures...lol

[3ptbuck]

Snuck the pic while walking to my boat. Just thought it was funny seein that big of a boat in a pit and was going to show a buddy. Also managed a short video from several hundred 100yds away...

[JustinM]

HUGE ticket if they get caught. You should of showed the CO.

[Moveon]

maybe you should have told them instead of taking pictures...lol

They should read the signs that are posted all over the place. Those speed limit signs are hard to miss.

Some people take offense when I tell them about the rules. So I hesitate to say anything now days.

We don't need speed boats on these small pits. Normally they lauch at the river but the river is flooded now so perhaps that is why they went to bluegrass.

Next thing you know they will be out there pulling water skiers and driving jet skies and it will be like Patoka Lake in the middle of summer. JK but you get the point.

We are lucky that they let us use gas motors on these pits and that can change in a heart beat. I'd hate to have to be forced to go back to using electric trolling motors only. That would be bad for me and prevent a lot of people from fishing these pits with their big bass boats.

I have talked with a few guys that don't really like the fact that they let gas motors on these lakes. I am not like that at all but I know that there are some who are. Some of those guys have told me that they don't like the oil that released into the water from gas motors. They like to wade out from teh shore and fish the shallow water with waders and the oil contaminates their waders. So I understand where they are coming from. But for me I need to use my gas motor to get the boat back on the trailer as I can't do that very easily with the trolling motor only.

[NFC]

Hopefully they won't be back once the river goes back down some.
I would have had to let the CO know what was goin on I think.

[Moveon]

You can call the Warrick County Sheriff's office and they will dispatch the CO's to the area to take care of this next time.

The numbers for the Warrick County Sheriff is posted on the main bulletin board in the parking lot of the South end of Bluegrass Pit. And the number for sugar ridge DNR office is posted on that board as well.

[JustinM]

They take away gas motors on bluegrass I'm putting a 101 thrust on my aluminum boat. Just be like everyone else running illegal electric motors and just change the top sticker out.

[Moveon]

Well lets hope that they don't take away our using the gas motors. But we must police ourselves and follow the rules or they may change the rules.

They make some twin electric motors that mount onto the cavitation plates of gas motors.

Just don't forget that Nate was the guy that allowed us to use gas motors and he's leaving this month for Northern Indiana. So who ever follows Nate as the IDNR Property Manager for Sugar Ridge and Bluegrass F&W area will be the one making the rules for Bluegrass F&W in the future. Let's not make him mad at use. LOL.

I won't be able to fish Bluegrass easily if they stop the use of gas motors. It's very hard for me to recover my boat using the trolling motor and if there is a wind blowing it's nearly impossible for me to recover my boat while fishing by myself. I've recovered my boat with ropes and twice I have broken the tail light on my trailer in the process. I'll have to modify my trailer lights and add extentions poles to them to get them higher so my boat doesn't hit them anymore. Right now they sit right above the water level when I put my trailer into the water to recover my boat.

Besides if the winds blowing hard it's too much for my boat to go against the wind using the 55 # trolling motor only. Even at the high speed setting the wind can move my boat backwards if I'm trying to go into the wind.

They take away gas motors on bluegrass I'm putting a 101 thrust on my aluminum boat. Just be like everyone else running illegal electric motors and just change the top sticker out.

[Moveon]

What's the water level at Bluegrass with all this flooding going on in Pigeon Creek. Has Bluegrass Creek flooded and backed up into the Bluegrass F&W area and the surrounding farm land?

I just read that the river has flooded into the City of Evansville's Water Supply Holding Tanks at the Water Treatment Plant. Never heard of it doing that before. Just wondering how high the Ohio River is right now and how much flooding has occurred on Pigeon Creek.

I am seeing that the city shut down the Pigeon Creek Greenway in several places due to the high water.

A few years ago the parking lot and Boonville Highway were flooded and I could not drive into the parking lot at Bluegrass. Is it that bad now?

[JustinM]

Not even close to being in the parking lot.