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aguyindallas
PostPosted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:13 pm 
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Lake Lewisville where I boat is probably an average of about 20-25 feet deep. I think max depth is about 55 feet in spots.

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robbo3
PostPosted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:29 pm 
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When we boat on Lake DuBay (also part of the WI River), the water is the same color. I think anything connected to the river is like this.

The lake in the picture below is about 5 feet deep on average with crystal clear water.

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The lake we normally boat in is over 90' in areas and visible down to about 10'.

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Teacher Todd
PostPosted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:46 pm 
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07H200SS wrote:
Most of the water in Wisconsin is a brownish color except the smaller lakes further north which are pretty clear. Lakes in my area are all brownish. Doesn't help that the average depth on the lakes we boat on is about 5-7 feet except in the river channels that get up to 30 feet. Even Lake Winnebago as big as it is only gets up to 20 feet in the middle.



I start to get nervous I am getting to close to shore at 20 feet. 8) We are down to 113 feet by the damn at my home lake. Summer irrigation draws it down.

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jerry540i
PostPosted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:29 pm 
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farleywilbur wrote:
jerry540i wrote:
I grew up boating on Georgian Bay. I guess I've come to expect that all water is clear!!
Out water is crystal clear, and you can easily see 40-50 feet down on some days, depending on the sunlight angle. Water color is all shades of blue, from the turquoise you see in the Caribbean to dark blue, almost black in deep, deep water.

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[/quote]Yes Georgian Bay is very beautiful but damn the water is cold! I just did a three day trip in the last week of June from Port Elgin up to Tobermory and around the islands up north of Tobermory. We covered 180 miles and the average water temperature was 58-60 degrees with the warmest we saw was about 63. It was hot out so you wanted to swim but just dipping a foot in cured that thought! Check out Cove Island if you ever get up that way. Great lighthouse and island worth exploring.[/quote

This summer has been a disaster so far (still waiting for it to show up!), so the water temps are about a month behind. Even on the east side of the Bay around Midland, the water is only about 70 in some of the smaller coves.
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Cap'n Morgan
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70 degrees is bathwater around here. We swam almost all day last Sunday in Lake Michigan and it was 68 degrees, it was great !

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c5er
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07H200SS wrote:
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Great pictures. I'd be interested to hear where you put in to boat on the river, I didn't realize much of that was large enough for boating or tubing.

Well we stayed at Holiday Shores Campground and they have there own small marina there. Just off there beach the river is like a small lake big enough for tubing and what not. From there it is about 7 miles they tell me up river into the damn in town. If your looking for a nice campground for a good price I would check it out. We stay for 4 days and had a good time. Lot to do there. Check out there website. Only thing I have to complain about it the actual launch situation itself. Kinda a crappy set up. You have to launch boat, park trailer in designated area, unhook truck, take truck back to campsite and walk back down to boat. They don't allow you boat or trailer to be kept at your site.


This is great timing as we looking at taking the boat to the dells area and I was wondering about launch locations and navigation of the water there. I am familiar with castlerock, petenwell and where we have out camper in plover but have no experience by the dells. So from you experience is there plenty of navigable water there to see the sights? what about resturants or bars to dock at for lunch/dinner? Do you know if you can launch at holiday shores w/o camping there?

Thanks -great pictures.

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c5er wrote:
07H200SS wrote:
robbo3 wrote:
Great pictures. I'd be interested to hear where you put in to boat on the river, I didn't realize much of that was large enough for boating or tubing.

Well we stayed at Holiday Shores Campground and they have there own small marina there. Just off there beach the river is like a small lake big enough for tubing and what not. From there it is about 7 miles they tell me up river into the damn in town. If your looking for a nice campground for a good price I would check it out. We stay for 4 days and had a good time. Lot to do there. Check out there website. Only thing I have to complain about it the actual launch situation itself. Kinda a crappy set up. You have to launch boat, park trailer in designated area, unhook truck, take truck back to campsite and walk back down to boat. They don't allow you boat or trailer to be kept at your site.


This is great timing as we looking at taking the boat to the dells area and I was wondering about launch locations and navigation of the water there. I am familiar with castlerock, petenwell and where we have out camper in plover but have no experience by the dells. So from you experience is there plenty of navigable water there to see the sights? what about resturants or bars to dock at for lunch/dinner? Do you know if you can launch at holiday shores w/o camping there?

Thanks -great pictures.

Castlerock is much bigger area to boat, but the river is very interesting to go through. Not sure if they will allow use of there launch or not. Have to call them. I was told there is another launch near town. Don't think there is really any places to stop to eat or anything, but there are some nice sand beachs you can stop at and hang out.

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