Me and my brother got in line around 3 and were way back, took almost 45 mins to get to the water after the gates were opened.
Would have been a lot sooner if everyone didnt park bumper to bumper and one guy must have been sleeping, unreal.
We boated 164 fish in 7 hours. Only 9 cats, and 2 stripers.
One phrase always comes to mind around opening day, Idiot.
I would like to ask a few things from boaters, if you cant back your truck up with a trailer learn how, If you cant load your boat on the trailer practice, and test your stinking boat before you get ready to launch it on opening day.
I take my boat to braidwood the week before the opener to test it, and make sure I can launch and run, thus not holding the line up.
When I started pulling a trailer, my father took me to an empty parking lot with the boat in tow and made me back up into parking stalls until my neck hurt from looking behind me, then once I could back it in the water he made me load and unload that SOB every single time we went out.
I will say it made me laugh that my 25hp 1984 merc fired up no problem and took off while the other two ramps were tied up by $50,000 plus worth of bass boats with 250hp motors that would not fire.
And anyone that doesnt believe there were that many fish caught saturday, ask any 20 people who were there, every single boat was landing fish after fish. I have never seen that many happy people. It was a sight to see, one of those days a guy will never forget.....................