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Not too fun for me, to each his own. | 7 | 21.88% | |
Yuck! | 0 | 0% | |
I love it. | 19 | 59.38% | |
Blow up that dam. | 6 | 18.75% | |
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07-24-2008, 05:45 AM | #41 |
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I'm guessing you'd have a bit more elbow room down there this year.
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07-24-2008, 06:07 AM | #42 |
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07-26-2008, 04:07 PM | #43 |
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Just got back after a week on the Lake. We own a share in a houseboat so it is an annual tradition for our family. With friends and family we had about 20 people with two ski boats and a bass boat. We absolutely love it.
The key to sleeping well at night is to pick a spot with some circulation. Protected coves are great for shade, but they get hot at night. Stripers are boiling (top-feeding on shad) this year in the evenings and in the mornings. Fishing to boiling stripers is a blast.
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07-26-2008, 04:15 PM | #44 |
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How's the water level? A few years ago it was 20' low.
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07-26-2008, 07:57 PM | #46 |
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I think it got down 120' feet at the lowest point in the drought. It was 2/3 empty. It is the highest now than it has been in quite a few years. But I would guess that it is still down 50' or so from the highest level.
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07-26-2008, 08:02 PM | #47 |
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As to Mike's comments on the cost, it is not as bad as one might think. We own a houseboat share (one prime week and one off-prime week per year) in a 25-year old houseboat. Nice and roomy, but not one of the deluxe versions so the share wasn't too much and the annual fees are reasonable. However, we don't own a boat so we invite family members and friends who own boats. That way we spread the costs around and everyone wins.
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07-27-2008, 01:29 AM | #48 |
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In college, I was doing a national radio story and I did it on Lake Powell. I interviewed Jim Hansen who was the congressman then and I asked him about draining Lake Powell and he gave a quote that made my story a hit: "I will not let them drain that lake. They will drain Lake Powell over my dead body."
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