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Central OH Mates?
- Thread starter linn
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ckaluger
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It's a shame I did not bring my boat. My daughter lives in Columbus and I came out yesterday. I thought about it but it is a little tight in the driveway at her house. I was at up at Alum two weeks ago Sunday to observe the chaos from the Marina and I am looking foward to seeing it from the water, anyway, my son and I will make contact and hook up with you. also you might want to consider 2-1/2 hour trip to the Ohio River at Wheeling and have 39 miles of river to run in!
Chuck
Chuck
linn
Active member
I did a few river runs with the guys on Greenhulk.net when I owned my jetski it was the best riding I had ever done on the ski. It was hard not to run WOT all day
MissBehavin
Member
I am also in the Lima area, where do you plan on boating at?
Rmartin-09
Member
I'm about 45 min south of Columbus.
diesel30
Member
not that big. Couple of miles long. Smaller than Caesars creek but big enough to run wide open for a little bit. One marina with small place to get food. nothing special but its deep and you dont have to worry about hitting anything. Avg depth of over 30'. Big swim cove that usually has around 50-100 boats tied up in it when it's warm. And it's 20 minutes from my house. 
Instigator
Well-known member
I've not been on Caesars Creek yet (15 mins from the new house)but boated on Alum since before it was a lake. We tested 3 point hydros's on it back in the '70's and used the old farm roads for ramps.
Am told it's larger than Caesars. Alum is basically 6 miles long (no wake) w/a bridge across the middle of it.
Has three class A ramps in the main body. If you over night on your boat, there is a another bridge on the north end and beyond it is no wake and goes on for several more miles.
Many deep covers for spending the night and the boaters cove north of the beach on the west side attracts many boat campers also.
Also a class A camp ground w/a few water front sites but good luck getting one.
It used to have a reputation for the local federalies being dicks.
I've been stopped while pulling a skier so they could search by boat for alcohol! None was found.
They used to put plain clothes cops on jet ski's and send them into the coves and woods w/binoculars and radios!
I've gotten a ticket for speeding in a no wake zone even though it was after season and there were no markers. I was within 200' of shore.
I got threatened w/a ticket one time while tied at the marina while having breakfast because I had trimmed the ugly background from the Ohio Registration sticker on my boat. The cop had a new, hotty partner with him.
He needed decked
They used to have an end of season shoot out there but haven't been to it for yrs. Last time I was, 15 yrs ago, the top dogs were close to 130.
In all, a very nice lake but what I call sterile. State owned, nothing on the shore line but the state controlled marina and beach and no alcohol.
I was on it a few months back on a Sunday ad it was nuts! I watched a guy back in what looked like a 40' Cigarette!! (probably 10 boats in line at that ramp)
I always want to throw those guys a $100. and tell them Lake Erie is 100 miles north. Ever crossed one of their wakes in a boat designed for a 6 mile lake?
But I guess it's easy to be big dick on a little pond.
BTW, I have a Starliner stored 30 mins east of Cols (Buckeye Lake) that I'm bringing down to our new place this week which is a 1/2 N. of Cinci.
Am told it's larger than Caesars. Alum is basically 6 miles long (no wake) w/a bridge across the middle of it.
Has three class A ramps in the main body. If you over night on your boat, there is a another bridge on the north end and beyond it is no wake and goes on for several more miles.
Many deep covers for spending the night and the boaters cove north of the beach on the west side attracts many boat campers also.
Also a class A camp ground w/a few water front sites but good luck getting one.
It used to have a reputation for the local federalies being dicks.
I've been stopped while pulling a skier so they could search by boat for alcohol! None was found.
They used to put plain clothes cops on jet ski's and send them into the coves and woods w/binoculars and radios!
I've gotten a ticket for speeding in a no wake zone even though it was after season and there were no markers. I was within 200' of shore.
I got threatened w/a ticket one time while tied at the marina while having breakfast because I had trimmed the ugly background from the Ohio Registration sticker on my boat. The cop had a new, hotty partner with him.
He needed decked
They used to have an end of season shoot out there but haven't been to it for yrs. Last time I was, 15 yrs ago, the top dogs were close to 130.
In all, a very nice lake but what I call sterile. State owned, nothing on the shore line but the state controlled marina and beach and no alcohol.
I was on it a few months back on a Sunday ad it was nuts! I watched a guy back in what looked like a 40' Cigarette!! (probably 10 boats in line at that ramp)
I always want to throw those guys a $100. and tell them Lake Erie is 100 miles north. Ever crossed one of their wakes in a boat designed for a 6 mile lake?
But I guess it's easy to be big dick on a little pond.
BTW, I have a Starliner stored 30 mins east of Cols (Buckeye Lake) that I'm bringing down to our new place this week which is a 1/2 N. of Cinci.