That makes sense ...around Clearlake oaks the water is pretty shallow..     a buddy of mine was up there last summer with an I/O and it something underwater with his prop and tore it up bad !! this is why I love jets !!!

KonaCole-

What makes the lake green in late summer is the algae bloom from the shallow water (average depth is 10-13') sun can get to the actual roots and it grows like weeds, but they have been keeping up with it lately. The algae is also what makes the lake "flip" and kills all the fish, the oxygen level from the algae heats the water to quickly and all the carp die in like three days time.

Guess the lake naming committee had a sense of irony 

C'mon guys, its' not that bad

April through mid July the lake is awesome, clear and mostly weed free, you can see into it an easy 8-10' making it easy to see the bottom most places

In late July the water starts to get to low, and everything starts growing like crazy, but its only bad for the first 200' at shore then the lake is clear again in the middle

If you went there in the 80s or 90s and haven't been back, I can assure you it is not half as bad as it was then

Ain't nearly as clean as a river though

Good to know Cole-

We have a hoist so we don't pull the boat out hardly ever, we'll have to look into gettin a sticker

One funny piece of info bout the lake-

There are only three sherrifs boats and 2 jet skis on that whole damn lake , and aside from holidays they are off the lake at 5 all summer long, only go out for calls after that, and they all tie up in Clear Lake so this summer when you are in Nice, you shouldn't see a sherrif after 3-3:30 all week

This Info is from a few years back so don't call me if ya have a run in with 'em

Let me know when you're gonna be up there, there's a pretty cool slough about 5 minutes from Nice we can go tear up one time (Any more than once will attract the sherrif for sure, does every time)

Yea I'll definetly try to get up there this summer... 

Yes You will absolutely see the fireworks show, be careful if you decide to drive down there, they launch right over the lake and there are a lot of falling embers, seen some nice boats with burn marks on the seats, They do music in the park that night and it gets pretty rowdy usually.

The 4th is fun up there, if this is your first time I think you will really enjoy it

If you are into small town short track auto racing they have a big weekend that weekend. They usually race all three nights and have better cars than normal its at the Lakeport fairgrounds about 15 minutes drive for ya (1/4 mile banked asphalt oval/ modifieds/ late models)

I'll Pm you as it gets closer and give you my #

Ty

Yeah I was in a boat one year that had a little "firework debris" land in it, not cool at all lucky the boat was a POS,
Couple years ago I heard they arrested like 30 people down there so we don't really go ashore that night any more

Our pier Is about 3/4 the way to town (mile south of PIT STOP) if ya want to post up there let me know, we usually got our own mortars too

Only thing might scare ya away is we do the family reunion that week every year so theres bout 50 of us there, but tons of kids and all good people and we built the place like a campground so theres plenty of room, may even have our floating dock in this year if the economy ever picks up