Weekend on Saginaw Bay
 

I uploaded these in the Formula section and couple weeks ago but figured I'd throw them on here as well. We normally boat up north where we live, Torch, Burt, Mullet, but I brought the boat down for the weekend to take some friends out.

We went out for a few hours on Saturday. Left from Vet's park in Bay City and out to the bay. We ended up picking up some friends at Cast-away's and hung out at the sand bar at the state park. We had a bunch of friend's and kids so we moved in a little shallower then everyone else. Of course made the mandatory stop at Hooter's for a beer before loading up in the rain!

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Those are my home waters, but I was running in Cleveland over the weekend. Can be fun at State Park depending on the crowd. I dont normally put in at Vets unless there is something going on in town 'cause of the long no-wake ride to the Bay. If they would just open the river back up except for the marina frontage downtown would have a lot more action and bring in a lot more boats.

I'm shooting for a first time out this yr with my boat cruise from bay city to sag and back then lunch at hooters this Saturday,Smitty

Haven't been to the east side of the state boating... any bad spots to be weary of around the state park and hooters areas?

we will be out this weekend. will go to saginaw sat for a bit then the bay and liberty for the night :evilb::evilb:

If you stay in the shipping channel in the river you will be fine.

Just be sure when you are outbound or inbound at the Saginaw river mouth to stay in the channel at least a mile out before heading north.

Brian,
Are you running strong on tgow motors now?
Pat

yes they are running great.we did the country fest up river then ot told to leave dockside " the owner is a pice of work" :angry-smiley-038: :nhl_fight: that battle is far from over. we will hit jobbie on friday then liberty on next tuesday.

Amen brother.

I've come in from Caseville a few times and the no-idle zone (to Hooters, of course) is a good hour each direction. IIRC, the short section between the Independence (Harry Truman) Bridge and the marina next to the train bridge did NOT have no-wake restrictions. This helped dull the pain a little, but not enough. Is this section of the river still like this?

Also, are there any wake restrictions further upriver once you get past downtown Bay City? Since it is a shipping channel, I've always played with the idea of "prop testing" further up river on windy days.