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Hoodoo, on saturday several of us met up down by the dam on the river. We had an MTI 340, the red DCB M31, a Nordic Heat, our Hallett 300, a chapparal and a Hallett 275. It was kinda like our old havasu days when we left. All running together back up river about 65-70 mph! I think we are doing Pend Oreille again this coming weekend

Hoodoo, that bay you are talking about is Garfield bay i think. We went right past several sherriffs boats this last weekend and never got hasseled. However, when we launched the M35 on thursday, the sherrif came over and kindly asked us to wait about 10 minutes before we pissed everyone off as his shift was ending! He was actually very nice. We chatted with him for a few minutes and then he took off. Most of them are very nice but there is one that can be a peckerhead!

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Sounds frigging awesome, especially in that setting. Wish I could have been there! The 34 is coming along nicely but it’s a next year thing for me. I’ll definitely be on the river all summer.
Thank you for the update.

I am beginning a search for a lake house on Pend Orielle. After going there earlier this summer my girlfriend and I were hooked. We were just there last week researching areas we liked and will be going back in September. We took my Barefoot Mastercraft both times since I am between boats until my Victory shows up sometime this winter. LOVE the lake and river. We live in Washington its about a 6 hr drive so not bad. I met the guy with the red M35 DCB and and also another gent with a new 34 MTI. They both said don't be a jackass and run fast on the river or near town and the cops dont hassle you. The lake is massive and mostly unpopulated so doing some speed runs up lake are "acceptable". Next year I would be very interested in a fun run and will hopefully have a place there.

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Enjoy it while you can.... Actually this was taken last February. The summer level is usually maintained till October. Chilly but peaceful.

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Originally Posted by hoodoo (Post 4753085)

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I’m about 10 mi downriver from Sandpoint.
The River/lake water is always clean and cool, here in Sarasota if you jump overboard you just get wet and sticky, the air and water are about the same temp. Very familiar with trestle creek.
I’m from SW FL and like the Sandpoint area enough to entertain the idea of living there year round. ( possibly overstating my ability to handle the winter). The days get really short in early winter but a heated shop would probably get me thru.

ah! My bad, my buddy is on priest lake not the river. We’ve never actually boated down the river. Usually stick from Hope to standpoint. If we drag the cigarette up there next year we’ll be running to every area on the lake. I’ve been going there for over 40 years. Place is absolutely amazing. But I could NEVER live there in dead of winter. It is crazy winter up there.

gld to see fast boats running there. All the years I’ve been going there (and I’ve loved fast boats since I was a kid) the first offshore style boat I’ve ever seen there was that gladiator. Get the run going and we’d like to make it!

The river is 99% deserted in winter. Even in the summer a lot of the houses are empty except on weekends and holidays. If not for the winter weather, this place would be overrun with people. But I’ve seen little change (compared to FL) in the 15 or so years I’ve been going up there. Definitely an uptick in faster boats lately. And up there the boats get used a lot during the season. Here in FL the season never ends but the boats mostly sit on the lift.

How many miles do you think is is from say sand point or priest river to bay view? Seems like that would be a long / good run! I think a poker run would be a blast on that lake and do it old school with 5 stops on the water and lunch then back to a host hotel most likely out of sand point in the marina. Make something happen in July next year and we’re in! could get Jason Johnson from speed on the water to cover it no problem ;)

For that you’d probably need to do the river and the lake.
Launching at the dam and running past Sandpoint to bayview and back up to Sandpoint or Dover would total about 85mi.
Possible stops would be Willow Bay, Dover on the river. Sandpoint, Bottle Bay, Hope, Garfield Bay, Bayview and Clark Fork on the lake. I don’t know what’s in Clark Fork.

Hoodoo, theres nothing in the clark fork area that i know of unless you actually boat up the river. Dover would be a good place to start and finish as they have the most dock space. Plus a nice restaurant! They also rent side ties overnight. Im going to have the wife start researching this for next year!