torch lake
 

Luhrs Landing on the Torch river, a little rustic, put our 302 Baja in there all the time, saw a 36 go in there too. Float it off the trailer, keep your drives up in the river. Leave your labbed props home and do some exploring, great boating in Elk Lake too! They {Elk Lake} have a sand bar on the north east end that is little used. Elk River Inn, Steaks & Cocktails live music sometimes. Hey Dyno remember that ride from Lake Charleviox to Elk Rapids, think Whitey was there for a minute too. Big fun and Big water, put the life jackets on that day! Hope to make that fun run this year.

Here's a pic of our "slip" at Luhrs.

Hey Man good to hear from you!! that was quite a ride back to Elk!!! That Sonic that Broke seas for me is for sale....damn I wish I could buy that big sob!!! Hope to have you along on the fun run!!!

i will be up there alot this summer. wife's family has a place up there. great clean water. i kept my boat at "sand bar shop" last year for a weekend.

Where did you put in ????

Memories
 

My wife and I did torch on sat. and dropped at elk rapids
on sun. this past summer. Made that trip to charlavoix and explored the whole lake, what a blast.
The last 15 minutes of our return trip was a little exciting. Were gonna need a bigger boat.
Life jackets were on as well. JC

Great to see some fellow Torch Lakers! Been going up there all my life. We have a place on the south end. This coming summer will be my first year with the 353. I was able to launch my 271 right at the bridge but I'm not sure that will work for a 35 footer.

Looking forward to putting in at Elk Rapids and running on Michigan up there. How far is the ride to Charlevoix and are ther any issues with shallow water on the way up?

Sparky your good to go from Elk north stay out a mile or so and no problems with shallows....go around the west side of fishermans island just to be safe we should hook up in August when I'm up for vacation!!! My wifes family is from ElkRapids area so we go as much as we can!
Maybe we can have an OSO get together at Pearls!!!

Dyno - thanks and it would be great to hook up somewhere up there. We are planning to be at Torch in late June through the 4th and then back for a week in Mid July. In between, we may even look for a place to leave our boat on the trailer in either Muskegon or Grand Haven and come back up for the poker run around the 9th of July. We're coming out of Chicago.

SPARKY1, WHAT YEAR IS YOUR 353 I TOO WILL HAVE MINE UP THERE. WE SHOULD ALL TRY TO HOOK UP.

Fast353tech, mine is a 2000. What year is yours and did you run it on Torch last summer? I'm a little nervous about the low water pickups and not sure if I can go down the river. We also have shallow water for about the first 400 feet in front of our place - even though I come in slow and trimmed up I'm worried about sucking up sand.

What time of year will you be up there - it would be great to run with another 353.

my parents had there 420 baja up there a couple summers ago, i cant rember where they launched it though, needless to say that weekend was a diaster, we anchored off the sand bar on torch lake and would take the zodiac to the sand, anyways my dad and his friend were on the boat and someone hit the boat, caused some damage, how they hit it is behind me, youd have to be a complete moron, guy thought because he was a cop that he didnt have to give us his insurance info or number to pay up(I AM NOT WHAT SO EVER BASHING OFFICERS HERE) and then come the end of the day i was pulling my jetskis at the ramp right at the bridge of the water, some punk kid threw something at my jetski which had a fresh paint job and i said some things to him, when i was loaded onto the trailer the kid walked from the bridge, got in my face, i told him to get outta here or i was going to call the cops for destroying my property, then he kicked the bed of my truck denting it pretty bad and it went down hill from there when i lost my temper after that, we docked the boat at a dock right after the bridge leaving torch lake which was a nice spot for viewing. besides our misaps, torch lake was beautiful, but i dont know if my dad will ever be taking is 420 up there again.