I have never known anything but the barrier so I am looking forward to it being down... that is if global warming stops and winter gets back to being cold again.

I wish they would open the bank access back up

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Maybe they will put up a no wake zone buoy. It got ruff with boats going in and out at high speeds before the barrier.

I think No Wake buoys is an absolute must. I'm fine with it being gone so that more people can fish the area and not be so crowded. What I don't want is to be sitting in my yak fishing peacefully and have some bozo in a glitter rocket come flying wide open up the channel with little regard to those who were there first.

At least a couple no wake signs on each side of canal entrance.

That was fun but sometimes crowded fishing.

I have had the full experience on that regard though being caught lots of fish and had a truck vandalized.

The main problem it always seemed with canal by boat was there's always "that guy" who while others are trying to fish in the canal pulls 4 planer boards right up the middle.

You mean this guy:

http://www.flatheadlakefishing.com/w...ds_fishing.jpg

Yes that guy but with more than one or two people already in the canal. It just needs to be done with courtesy or at least common sense given the tight quarters.

I just wanna be clear though in I am not anti-planer boards at all.

Was that your boat in the pic SalmonDaze? If so where were you at the water looks amazing?

This needs to happen at the least. Even now there are guys that done come off plane until almost at the barrier.


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Courtesy among anglers? What is this nonsense you speak of?

That in particular hasn't happened to me but two Springs ago I had a guy get his lines tangled with mine more than once when he decided to get all up in the route I was going back and forth on in my kayak trolling grubs for Crappie. I had marker buoys out so he knew that was my area and I was going back and forth among them. I was having a good morning and he wanted in on my action. Find another spot buddy, I was there first.

Because I'm a nice guy I'd just laugh about it and untangle his stuff but in the back of my head I was thinking I wanted to cut his jigs off every time he did that and maybe he'd go away.

No, not me/boat; just a random google pic. I have a love/hate relationship with planer boards . . . I hate them (I hate anything between me, the line, the hook, and the fish), but I love catching fish; so I admit to owning and using them.

Having fished for salmon/trout/walleyes for 40 years on the Great Lakes, I can't believe the number of times I've seen (and been close to involved with) shots fired (over the bow) of recreational fishermen trolling "their line" in the largest patch of fresh water in North America.

Since in TN for the past several years; I've been fortunate enough to have seen this behavior 0.00 times. Most times, guys give each other enough room to drive a river barge between.

Not sure I'll even attempt a GSP canal voyage unless gale winds blowing with 2" of snow so as to have minimal likelihood of dodge-em-boats.

That's usually the best fishing anyways under those conditions.

I am wanting to try pulling couple of the smaller boards on my kayak or jon boat just to see how the work. It's been an interest now for a couple years. But the work from a kayak may be more than I want to put up with.

Luckily you never ran into the situation I am referring to. For years (pre-barrier) there was a guy every winter in a center console who regardless of how many boats were in the canal would pull boards up/down it. That same person would also anchor up in the canal free line and bottom bait on several rods regardless how many people were in there. He was a navigational nightmare.

Those who have fished GSP for a long while may have ran into him before as he was a regular years ago.