Bananaslug22
Senior Member
I am a little familiar with that area. I have launched outa Langdale and paddled upstream and had very good experiences fishing below the dam. But how did you get out going down at crowhop? Did you paddle upstream back to Langdale? Did you portage across the island between the two dams? And pull out at Riverview?
Thanks I did a ground and OnX recon yesterday and I can’t figuare out how you got around the dams north of Riverview.
thanks
So we parked trucks at the Riverview Ramp which is 1 mile downstream of the Crowhop dam. Shuttled ourselves to the Langdale Ramp and put-in there. Floated down to the Crowhop dam. If you stay all the way river right at the Crowhop dam, you take the river channel that follows the bank and ends up at the actual smaller Riverview dam. If you turn left towards the Crowhop dam channel 200 ft from the Crowhop dam instead of going river right towards the Riverview dam, there is a bank with a worn trail on the bank 100 or so feet from the lip of the Crowhop dam. There is a huge pine tree at the bank where you take out. Its about 4 ft in diameter. You can drag or carry your kayak on the trail and put it back in the water below the dam. The trail runs really close to the edge of the bank in a few spots so having a partner to help carry the yak would be better.
You get really close to the dam kayaking at that point so be careful if they are generating. It'll pucker up your backside up a little knowing you're that close to the edge.
If they are not generating, I have paddled all the way to the edge of the dam in the corner and just stepped up on the concrete and pulled the kayak out of the water there.
My dad and I got to the dam first that day. We took out at the Pine tree and carried our yaks down the trail about 225 ft to put them back in the water. I immediately called my three buddies and told them to just paddle to the dam and take out there in the corner since they were not generating.
AGAIN**** - DO NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT paddle to the dam if they are generating. You will probably die if you do.
They were not generating when we got to the dam and there was no flow of water over the dam in the corner because the dam is unlevel and I guess the concrete is a little higher over in the corner than the middle areas of the dam. The water was barely coming over in the middle
From there we fished and the generated water came down about 30 minutes later. We just paddled to Riverview ramp from there when it was time to leave.