Re: KY/TN Lakes to Visit in Summer 2013
It's been a while since I boated in KY, but Lake Cumberland has more pairs of my sunglasses then I can remember :facepalm:
It's immense size is really handy, when it's busy you can usually find somewhere to tie up in a cove & have it pretty much to yourself as a homebase. And tube & etc in & out of the cove & part of the main lake. But even when the lake is low, you need to watch your location, particularly near dark. Heard many 'lost in the fog' & 'couldn't find which channel' to follow, so keep track of where you are & where you're headed.....
BUT: it's primarily in a dry county, and I've seen loads of people arrested & taken into custody for reckless driving, drinking, possession of alcohol and seen lots of tickets & summons issued for lack of correct safety gear & lack of PFD's. Local, state & F&W cops all work together, watch from the woods overlooking a ramp/marina and from a state park's waterfall picnic area, scanning for alcohol to be loaded onto a boat then track down the boat on the water. Not just on holidays or weekends. Only once was it remotely crazy like Lake Havasu is portrayed, but we often called it The Havasu of the East:redface: Getting locked up on Sat of a holiday weekend & having the cops tell your buddies to pick you up after you see the judge on Tues
sucks.
Fortunately, I never got to see the inside of the F&W boat, nor did any of my buddies.
But yep seen them drag a guy off his inner tube float & out of the water into cuffs....
It's been a long while, but I doubt much of that ^^ has changed much.
Boating in KY, miss it regularly!!!!!!!! Tennessee has some great possibilities too....
