Lessons Learnt at the Boat Launch

Along our fall search for some larger, and aggressive angling we decided to pop into Little Bow Provincial Park and fish the reservoir. My friend recalled pulling lunkers out of there as a child while camping with his family, so we loaded up the boat, and drove into the sunrise.

We got there and found two boat launches forming a ‘v’; and they looked rough, uneven, stopping 5 feet before the water began and just generally ill-maintained. It seemed quite odd to me that such a well maintained campground, and provincial park at that would have such a terrible boat launch, but we backed the truck in anyways. I would like to note at this time that we borrowed a truck for this trip, a ¾ tonne work truck. My friend jumped in the boat and I put the truck in to 1^st gear (having grown up off-roading) I knew this was our best shot, and the tires sunk instantly so I put it in neutral and proceeded to look for 4-wheel drive…. And looked, and looked and realized that this was a 2-wheel drive work truck, we were stuck, sunk and our only hope was the people fishing off of the shore with their brand new suv….