01-27-2015, 02:02 PM
Although I live in Utah, I have fished CJ many times from my boats. We have camped on the lake near Crane Falls and we have had multiple tents destroyed or blown away. Once we were sitting in my Suburban, waiting for a storm to pass, when a large tree was suddenly blown over and fell right next to one of our tents. One time I foolishly pulled my boat up to the side of the ramp and left it tied up there while we made a run to town. A quick storm passed through while we were gone, and despite the kindness of some fellow anglers trying to save my boat, it got banged against some rocks. Had to patch a hole in the boat before we could head out again the next morning. Two years ago we didn't notice some storm clouds coming our way until it was too late. That wind hit and we had waves crashing over the top of the cabin and coming inside of my 19 1/2' boat. We were running on the auxiliary tank (another long story), and were running on fumes, when we finally were able to pull into the ramp. Bottom line, be extremely careful on CJ in any size of boat.
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