Oct 21, 2015 Nearly 2 limits - Toledo Water Intake

[branhamautomotive]

We are back the portage a few miles beyond the train bridge. Price wise it's great 350 a year. The river gives us a great place to cruise, tube, jet ski with the kids. In fact with our small boat and outboard or the skis we can make it all the way to oak harbor. I don't take my 27 ft back that far. Now the bad, water depth can be an issue at times, especially late in the year. I have seen it no more than a small trickle in the mud. Now more to pc not an issue. The other bad is the 20 minutes of idle each way from the train bridge to the lake.

So if we fished evert weekend what we save in dockage would tale more fuel and alot more time to the trip.

We are back beyond the rt 2 bridge, but the trip to the train bridge is only a few mins it'd the idle time through town that gets long. Just food for thought. I will be back where I am this year next.

[sloch24]

We are back the portage a few miles beyond the train bridge. Price wise it's great 350 a year. The river gives us a great place to cruise, tube, jet ski with the kids. In fact with our small boat and outboard or the skis we can make it all the way to oak harbor. I don't take my 27 ft back that far. Now the bad, water depth can be an issue at times, especially late in the year. I have seen it no more than a small trickle in the mud. Now more to pc not an issue. The other bad is the 20 minutes of idle each way from the train bridge to the lake.

So if we fished evert weekend what we save in dockage would tale more fuel and alot more time to the trip.

We are back beyond the rt 2 bridge, but the trip to the train bridge is only a few mins it'd the idle time through town that gets long. Just food for thought. I will be back where I am this year next.

The No-Wake zone would be a deal killer for me. I was even looking just past the draw bridge, and thought that might even be annoying. I work full time, so every minute is important. Right now we have about a 10 minute idle out from Meinke, and some days it seems to take forever! Also with the 27' boat, I'd be constantly worrying about the depth.

When we bought the boat it was sea trialed out of Happy Days docks, and we were warned to follow the channel markers very closely due to low water. I'm not real fond of the Portage much past the drawbridge!

Thanks for the info though!