This is more of a boat retreive story than a fishing one.

I drove straight to the Sand Point launch at 8:45 am, no line, plenty of parking on the west side of the building at the overflow lot.

Only one fish, and that one was out in the middle on the north side of 520. Lines up around 12:30 because both of us had things to do in the afternoon which was fine with us.

The surprise was the two hour wait to pull the boat! The line of empty trailers was almost to Sand Point Way. I ended up anchoring my boat and swimming to shore thinking I'd come back with the kids around 5 pm, fish a little, then pull the boat with no problem. Wrong!

At 5:15 pm the line up of trailers was still almost to Sand Point Way. Thank God it was overcast and there was an ice cream truck driving around! The kids were dissapointed but I wasn't about to risk going out fishing and then still having a two hour wait to pull my boat in the dark.

Of course, the punch line was that when I finally drove out of the park around 7:15 pm with my boat, the line had dissapeared!

I love taking kids out fishing, but the procedures at the ramp really don't make it possible. If you have two adults, one could put in two more hours fishing while the other fetches the trailer, but single handed, there's no good way or place to tie up the boat while getting the trailer.