Checked it out today. If you have an 18" draft on your Bayliner, you'll have major problems in Chassahowitzka. It's less than a foot deep in many places. I actually ran into trouble on the way back upriver with my little 16' Kingfisher which drafts less than a foot.
Banged the skeg a couple times on my 8HP Johnson and dinged up the prop!
For the first 1/2 mile downriver from the launch ramp there are plenty of deep holes; some as much as 15' deep. But you can go 20 yards and suddenly be in a foot or so of water! Gotta be careful there! :faint2:
After that first stretch it gets flat and shallow and stays that way. Like a foot deep all the way across the river and for at least another 1/2 mile or more downriver. I stopped because it's some 6 miles from the launch ramp to the Gulf proper. I didn't want to chance it myself.
I won't go back there until I get my new motor installed with a jack plate. Have to be able to run in
shallow water!
Plenty of shallow draft, flat bottomed boats with jack plates running at speed up and down the river but they were only drafting a few inches of water while on plane.
So now ya know! :joyous:
Launch ramp and parking area
