I love fishing Alamo Lake here in Arizona. It's always on fire late winter through spring. It sits about half way between Phoenix and Lake Havasu out in the middle of the desert so it gets ridiculously hot during the summer and most of us stop going after mid June.
From where I live there's only one way to get there. Through Wickenburg. It's got to be one of the straightest (and most dangerous) roads in the country. And its close to 3 hours each way.
But the fishing is so good it's worth the trip and I try to get out there once or twice a week before summer sets in. But dang it, every year they have to chip seal that road and they always do it in the spring. It just wreaks havoc on my truck and boat. Fresh tar/oil and gravel smacking my windshield and the white hull of my boat. I can live with the cleaning of the tar but the gravel hitting the bottom of my boat at 75 MPH knocks out tiny little chips in the gel coat. Nothing I can do about that. Maybe add one of the huge tailgate brushes that I see occasionally might help... maybe. You would think they could do their road maintenance in December.
And while I'm ranting. I'm gonna blame the dang Saudis. They've leased up all that desert to grow their alfalfa because it's against the law to use their water in their desert to grow it. They're on the $hit list around here because they have lowered the water table so low that locals can't afford to drill wells deep enough to get their water. But I know it's their trucks hauling alfalfa to the railheads that tear up these roads... al la... chip seal every spring!
My boat's hull is starting to look like swiss cheese. And a yearly windshield replacement for my F350 is about due.
How's the road maintenance in your neck of the woods. Do they mess them up just when the fishing gets hot every year.
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Originally Posted by Transom
