calling all lake mead boaters! nevada

[12vMan]

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The Restoration section?

That's what I call a hole in the water... with holes

 

[fishrdan]

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Bummer about the outboard tt600. I've dropped a couple things overboard down there, but nothing that painful. So,,, EXACTLY where is it... (my 14' jon boat would be nothing but "prop in the water" with 35HP :facepalm

12v, I wonder if that fine craft is military in origin, kind of looks like it. It would be errie to have that thing floating around when the lake comes up high enough to float it, if it's not riddled with holes. The ghost ship of Lake Mead

007, I think Mead fishing is going to explode within the next few years, with all that new found cover. I guess we shall see.

 

[QC]

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12v, I wonder if that fine craft is military in origin, kind of looks like it. It would be errie to have that thing floating around when the lake comes up high enough to float it, if it's not riddled with holes. The ghost ship of Lake Mead

Uhh Dan . . . I'm thinking that thing was on the bottom long before the water receded last time . . . fat chance she'll float when the water goes back the other way . . . lol, sorry, can't help it. I'm dying here

Maybe you could start a Halloween Boat Parade as a little anti-xmas parade deal. LMAO, drag around a bunch of dead ghost boats with dead people and skeletons. Wait, I have that . . . Just a min. LOL. You guys think I'm kidding. Hold on.

 

[QC]

Re: calling all lake mead boaters! nevada

My front yard, Halloween '06:

 

[tt600]

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I am now the proud new owner of a '92 johnson 30. And will now use a safety rope!
Perhaps I will venture down to willow again at the end of the month and see if I can see my motor at the bottom. Anyone have any guesses of its condition after 30 days submerged? And how to fish it out of 15' of water?

 

[jaxnjil]

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Alright, where the heck is this?

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(Taken New Year's Eve)

as you say new years. going to guess some where above temple, where the water level has come back up to be that close to shore now???

had a Park Ranger tell me a few years ago; they get derelicts off the lake as they can. some times sooner and some times not

may be overton as water is coming up again.
thinking if las vages bay, or boulder bay, would have been seen and moved out.
unless hasn't been out there that long???????

ok i give up

 

[12vMan]

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Alright, where the heck is this?

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(Taken New Year's Eve)

Ladder Cove (Near T Bar)

 

[fishrdan]

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Uhh Dan . . . I'm thinking that thing was on the bottom long before the water receded last time . . . fat chance she'll float when the water goes back the other way . . . lol, sorry, can't help it. I'm dying here

Oh, I know that. How could a person miss all that rust from 50 years of sitting at the bottom. As long as the hull isn't breached, it'll float. (I don't see no holes, just a bunch of rust.)

Ladder Cove (Near T Bar)

Hmmm, Ladder Cove huh? Now I have to head out there this weekend, drag it off shore and snap some floating ghost ship pics for QC. I'm not posting up the pics as it slips below the surface again though....

I could use some donations for my trip: duct tape, bailing wire, couple gallons of SealAll, 20-30 sheets of foam insulation, 3-4 tractor tire inner tubes. Or, if anyone has a couple 55 gallon drums of 2-part foam, that would suffice.....

 

[jjacobs007]

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Fish, id love to see those pics. I have some 5200 sealant.

 

[wagnerz]

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Went out on Lake Mead 3 times this week. My goodness, could not have asked for better weather. It was 70 degrees with glass water and no one else out there. Got into a couple of schools of stripers and caught probably 75 fish over those three days. Only a couple over 3 pounds the rest were 2-3 pounds.

 

[12vMan]

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Hmmm, Ladder Cove huh? Now I have to head out there this weekend, drag it off shore and snap some floating ghost ship pics for QC. I'm not posting up the pics as it slips below the surface again though....

I could use some donations for my trip: duct tape, bailing wire, couple gallons of SealAll, 20-30 sheets of foam insulation, 3-4 tractor tire inner tubes. Or, if anyone has a couple 55 gallon drums of 2-part foam, that would suffice.....

ahhh, the infamous SealAll!

The 'Minnow' as we call it has been there for some time now, mostly underwater. It has been high and dry for several years though with the low water ele..

I was standing in the store one morning in '04 or '05 after a freak storm blew thru the night before and overheard a guy saying his houseboat was one of 3 privates that got stuck in a flash flood while pulled up on the shore at the end of Ladder. When I went over to help that was my first sighting.
The HB's had to get a tow-jet in there because the flash flood had brought a wall of mud down into their boats. Took the whole day to get them dug out

 

[fishrdan]

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tt600, The water is pretty darn clear at Willow, so if you go out the crack of dawn before the current starts running hard and it's dead calm with no ripple on the water, you might be able to see it. Getting a hold of it is another matter. strippin' down to your skivvies and taking a swim would probably be the easiest. I know a couple of guys who have done that for fishing plugs....... I wouldn't do it solo as the water is 58* or so and you want to make sure you have help in case you get in trouble. Either that or some rope and a grappling hook type thing might (might) snag it, good luck with that one though. If you are able to retrieve it, get it started ASAP at the marina, pull the plugs, drain it out, some oil in the cylinders, fresh plugs, fresh fuel, run it on some 25-1 premix and get it hot so it the water evaporates. The longer it's exposed to air, the more damage that will occur.

[EDIT: You might be SOL if the OB landed in the weeds as they are pretty thick and dense, it might be obscured in the weeds...]

007, How many gallons of 5200 do you have?

wag, Sounds like a good 3 days. For Mead, I'd rather catch a bunch of 1-2-3#ers as they are better eating than the bigger ones.

12V, That must have been a LOT of sediment that came down Ladder Cove to stick boats. I can believe it though as I've seen a couple washes get a several feet shallower after a good flash flood. Willow Beach had a 1' or more in their parking lot about 10 years ago, cars/trucks buried up the the frame.


Still not enough supplies to head out to Ladder Cove yet. Though I did fine some packing peanuts, styrofoam and a couple garbage bags of bubble wrap in the attic today. Getting closer...

 

[tt600]

Re: calling all lake mead boaters! nevada

I may make it down there around the 25-26th. Not sure if I am tough enough to jump in that cold water alone. It seems the water is lowest around 3pm. I was thinking I anchor over the motor, if I can see it, and then grab a cinder block or sandbag of rocks to pull me down and jump in with a loose rope in my other hand to tie to the motor and then pull myself back up. seems kind of scary. I need an adult to stay in the boat which I don't have either.
Dan, do you know any of the spearfisher guys at wilow?

 

[fishrdan]

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Nope, I don't know any divers and usually don't see them down at Willow. I did see a couple last month though.

From my experience, the water starts dropping around 10PM then starts rising around 7am. Fluctuates with power demand from Hoover. I wouldn't wait too much longer as the river is really low right now, about 10' down from summer levels.

 

[12vMan]

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12V, That must have been a LOT of sediment that came down Ladder Cove to stick boats. I can believe it though as I've seen a couple washes get a several feet shallower after a good flash flood. Willow Beach had a 1' or more in their parking lot about 10 years ago, cars/trucks buried up the the frame.

I'll have to dig out some pics if I can find them. It was a pretty awesome sight (in a bad way of course) to see those 3 HB's with that wall of mud in front. You could literally walk onto the top of at least 1 of them on the mud it was so high. The mud had made such a smooth path down the wash that it actually looked like a road.

I remember the floods at Willow. That was pretty devastating. We had a chance to bid on some work there during the rebuild, but the logistics of doing the job priced us out.

 

[12vMan]

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Another pic of the Minnow at lower water level

 

[12vMan]

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WTH is this?

 

[jjacobs007]

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WTH is this?

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I havent a clue, i just hope nobody was standind on the stairs when that colum came down.

 

[jjacobs007]

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Went out on Lake Mead 3 times this week. My goodness, could not have asked for better weather. It was 70 degrees with glass water and no one else out there. Got into a couple of schools of stripers and caught probably 75 fish over those three days. Only a couple over 3 pounds the rest were 2-3 pounds.

The lake has been awesome, not many windy days. Has anyone seen any big horn lately,last time i seen them was just outside calville bay.Then i also see the mules straight across from calville on the east side, arizona side.

 

[jjacobs007]

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I was just thinking about the time when the water was going low, and how i had a great day of fishing large mouth at the old las vegas bay marina.They had just moved the marina and only the launch ramp dock was there.There were many tires in the water around 20ft deep and i caught large mouth off them all day,I kept them in my livewell and relocated them to a nice cove later on.They were all over 5lbs and it was a great day.I also fished stripers in boils there one day that lasted 6hrs.They just kept reappearing boil after boil and i was the only one there to see it.