Lake Hamilton

(ricabernathy) · (ricabernathy) **Join Date: Jun 2009** 08-21-2009, 12:35 PM

Anyone know where there is some good water at lake hamiltion in hot springs? goin to a buddys lake house there in a few hrs for the weekend... might just go to ouachita..

(jnewton7) · (jnewton7) **Join Date: Jun 2005** 08-21-2009, 12:49 PM

Someone posted this a while back....might help you out.

http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/messages/1/722646.html

I hear its pretty busy on weekends, I've always liked Ouachita

(neilspen) · (neilspen) **Join Date: Sep 2008** 08-21-2009, 1:05 PM

Hey Ric,

I just got back from lake hamilton about two weeks ago. The weekends were pretty busy, but the best water that we found was north of the hwy 70 bridge. The worst day that we had was on Saturday, tons of boat out there. Friay was pretty nice.

(joshbuzz) · (joshbuzz) **Join Date: Sep 2007** 08-23-2009, 11:22 AM

I worked on Ouachita all summer, put in at Ouachita Shores right past shangri la, and as soon as you get out of the no wake zone hit a left. There's a cove at the end called L cove that we pulled in all summer and it's always smooth. Just don't go past the stump at the end of the cove, it get's shallow.

(lancesaville) · (lancesaville) **Join Date: May 2009** 08-23-2009, 12:13 PM

Hamilton is just ridiculous on weekends between memorial and labor day. It's a party (barge) lake. A good spot I like to launch at Ouachita is at brady mountain. Once you leave the no wake zone there you can go left and follow the shoreline or to the right and there's a nice spot in an inlet right before the blakely dam, both are usually very calm water and not crowded. Ouachita is big so it never really seems crowded, heck I've seen huge open areas on ouachita that looked like glass on a saturday. Degray is great too, lots of great spots and friendly peeps that ride there.

(ricabernathy) · (ricabernathy) **Join Date: Jun 2009** 08-23-2009, 7:42 PM

well we stayed the lake but didnt ride there.. we went to degray instead and had a great day..

(ricabernathy) · (ricabernathy) **Join Date: Jun 2009** 08-23-2009, 7:44 PM

I saw like 8 Supras...almost no MC or CC's.. Diamond lakes is doing a good job there..

(lancesaville) · (lancesaville) **Join Date: May 2009** 08-23-2009, 11:32 PM

yep it's like a supra/moomba reunion there every weekend, and really good folks too, the INT crowd. And yep diamond lakes has degray on supra lockdown haha, this was a good weekend to go to degray, last INT tournament of the year. Would have been there myself but had to be in boston for a red sox vs yankees game. Glad to hear you guys had a great day out there man. See you on the water.

(dlwsrider) · (dlwsrider) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 08-24-2009, 5:11 AM

well we stayed the lake but didnt ride there.. we went to degray instead and had a great day.

Smart man

(layton_olano) · (layton_olano) **Join Date: Sep 2009** 09-18-2009, 2:48 AM

Go to Ouachita, much better water there.

(calexan) · (calexan) **Join Date: Dec 2008** 09-18-2009, 9:38 AM

This time of the year though.... Hamilton wont be too bad.

If it ever stops raining....