Agreed... Holiday Weekends are not the time to get a feel for this lake anymore so than New Years Eve is the time to evaluate Vegas. Just in the last year though it seems that the traffic is a lot more managable for Holiday weekends than before - 4th of July for example seemed like just another Summer weekend.

The last 4 weekends and the next 8 are incredible - 80 or so degree weather, few people on the lake, and the best part - cooler air means happier engines making more HP !

Gregg Reichman

[QUOTE=LZH;2329367]Last time I was at Havasu, at the sandbar, we had some drunk idiot, with his kids, and family, blarihng 2Live Crew, singing along to Pop That Coochie, in front of their kids....cant anchor for crap in current, almost slams into us and then proceeds to start a fight with us. Hs wife, her tattoed girlfriends, his buddies, their pit bulls.....all wondering why WE almost hit him......afer we had been at anchor for THREE HOURS minding out own business.

The only good thing about gas getting so expensive is it may filter out vermin like these guys. Seems like the last six years or so even the scum bags are boating.

Havasu needs more Beaches and sand. No way will I park my hull onto the lakes rocky shoreline on a busy weekend. From the Channel to Windsor beach & from Windsor beach to mosquito cove. They need to clear out all that brush & bring in sand to park a $200,000 hull. The sand bar is closed by SBCS so where do you go??? The Channel ??? Windsor Ramp can let about 1000 boats in and the Channel has enough room for about 200 boats... so were do you go? Site 6, Havasu Marina, "Body Beach", "That Beach", Cat Tail Cove, Havasu Landing, Topac Ramp, Needles Ramp, all let boats in..... 3000-5000 boats on the water.... We need nore sandy beaches. A boardwalk can be built so cops can keep law and order and families can relax. Parking for cars can be built so you can get to gear or run for ice and not have to rely on hauling gear. They NEED more ramps too!!! Your closed out by noon at Windsor and Site 6 is a 3Hr joke! Not a nice way to spend a holiday from LA. Havasu needs to get this! People will spend there money somewhere else! Havasu was built by the boating community! Whithout the lake... most in havasu wouldn't even have come! We need to support boaters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They closed the sand bar?

I should have clarified the sand bar closure... Only on major weekends... Sorry...

Someone has planted willows on the sand bar though and there starting to take over like tall weeds....

Anyone else hear anything about the Memorial Day Boycott of Havasu?

Why is it that nobody goes to Lake Mohave or atleast it seems?

I was there - if there was a Boycott, no one knew about it

The boat traffic in havasu is way down since last year. There's hardly ever any big boats out there lately.

I 2nd that...

I travel extensively on business and had the fortunate opportunity to do stay in Lk Havasu City for 15 days in July 08...Since I absolutely love boats, I take tons of boating pix. Unfortunately, I got into a very serious fight fight while doing same...

I was on the canal walkway taking pix of all the hot boats, when a heavily tattooed guy, his wife w/kids walked in front of me just as I was taking a boat pix...

The moron stops and confronts me...accusing me of taking pix of his wife's azz...I told him that it was he, that walked in front of the camera and I wasn't even shooting boats in his direction. Needless to say, he turned and approached me, while shouting obscenities at me...Big mistake on his part...I let him know that I don't roll like that, but I'm ready to rock-the-house, if he steps any closer...Note: for the sake of future lawsuits, I decided to snap an aggressive pix as evidence...

As you can see, his wife is telling him "Stop being an azzhole, he wasn't even taking pix of me and it's not that serious...

Again, I'm a big guy and I love physical contact...I also warned him twice, but he didn't listen...He grabbed my arm and I knocked the "**** out of him"...A scuffle insued, when he got up, and his boat buddies and the beach/park patrol broke the fight up...

I felt pretty bad about doing that in front of his family, but he was very lucky that he didn't, get shot...

BTW...I was told that he wasn't even a boater, just came to Havasu to hang out with some of his boater buddies...

Bottom Line...I was amazed at the police presence on the beach/jet ski/boat, when I first arrived...I even asked the police for general boating info. and beach rules/protocol... But, I guess I had to learn 1st hand...Havasu is a very beautiful boating area, but the local boaters are not very friendly and are rather cliquish...I had a heck of a time striking up offshore boating conversations...It seems that everyone is from somewhere else and apparently aren't used to speaking to tourist/strangers/outsiders... But, due to the begging beach bums and canal azzholes (both boaters and wanna be klingons), I decided to simply rent some fishing gear and spend the rest of my free time fishing at Site Six...I was thinking of towing my offshore cross country for the next Desert Storm Run, but I probably will never return to Havasu, unless it is for business...Very sad...Very sad...

Aside: I will also be in Phoenix, Az. 9/29/08 - 10/12/08...Would like to meet some OSO'rs...Please contact me...If not, ), I guess I'll just hang out at the Lk Pleasant boat ramp and look at all the pretty boats...as usual...Special Note: posted a similar post for Lk. Havasu on 6/12/08...as of this writing...I had 75 viewers and ZERO replies...Go figure...


Special Note:
I've got pix but, haven't figured out how to attach them...
Not sure if registered members have that privilege...


The 1st two pix are the boats I was actually shooting...

The 3rd is Mister Bad Azzz....

If you know this guy...tell him I said hello...

Divenstar