03-24-2013, 05:32 PM
[cool][#0000FF]To the best of my knowledge, the channel...from the baffles to the buoy in the middle of the channel just north of the launch area...is closed to motorized boats.
Howsomever, myself and other tubers have finned up into the channel clear to the inlet for years without being stopped by rangers. I have actually talked to a ranger who was driving along the dike and stopped to ask me how I was doing.
I will say that now that I have an electric motor on my float tube I have not gone up into the channel, just on the outside chance that it might not be acceptable.
There can be some good fishing from the banks all along that channel, but there is so much brush in close to shore that you risk losing many of the fish you catch to snags.
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Howsomever, myself and other tubers have finned up into the channel clear to the inlet for years without being stopped by rangers. I have actually talked to a ranger who was driving along the dike and stopped to ask me how I was doing.
I will say that now that I have an electric motor on my float tube I have not gone up into the channel, just on the outside chance that it might not be acceptable.
There can be some good fishing from the banks all along that channel, but there is so much brush in close to shore that you risk losing many of the fish you catch to snags.
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