I AM A NEW BOAT OWNER AND I WAS THINKING OF GOING TO CC TOMORROWAND WAS WONDERING IF THE 15 TO 25 MPG WIND WOULD BE TO HIGH FOR MY 16' FIBER GLASS BOAT

You also have to take account the WIND GUSTS, not just the constant winds. The gusts are the ones that catch you off gaurd. I would strongly recommend that you dont go out in that kind of wind until you get familiar with your boat, and the lake. There will be plenty of good days to go in the future.

Those winds can really turn something fun into something horrible fast. Theres gonna be another day to fish. I'd agree with RedTop and Leaning Post.

I agree with all 3 of them above.

I've had my boat about a year now and we got trapped in a creek last year at 3am with 25 mph winds and I will say that is almost the worst experience I've had so please dont go out in those winds until youve had your boat a few months and are very familiar with it. My boat drives completely different in 5mph than it does in 15-25mph winds, be careful.

I stay home with anything above 15 mph in my boat and it's a 15+ foot fiberglass boat. Especially if you are a new boat owner. It get's crazy hairy especially if the winds shift some. Loading a small boat with waves coming in is not a thing you ever want to have to do.

with a new boat it's hard to stay home... you figure, "it won't be that bad." Big mistake in the making... wait it out until a better day or find some smaller water to fish. Also as was stated above, launching in the wind can be a nightmare, especially if you're trying to back off the trailer into waves... not good!

Cedar Creek is an especially rough lake. I would stay home.

Liar! You would fish in a Hurricane if someone asked you to go.

How did you and CV do at the slips on Sunday?

It was pretty slow. We caught 20-30 fish between the two of us with about 5 keepers. The ones we found hit HARD but we could not find a big concentration of them.

stay home dude

Nice. Hope we can get out to GV soom man. We need to catch up.

Sorry for the hijack bro.

Stay away from CC! That lake will be like a washboard!

The last two daya I ran my 24ft skeeter and it was rough in it. Unless you know the lake well and have some really wind protected spots I wouldnt go. The waves today were an easy 2-3ft chop and some higher. Thats plenty big to swamp a small boat.
If you gonna go I suggest Caney public ramp and dont get out of the caney Arm of the lake. It offers the best wind protection from the south. Good luck!
Oh yea, I fished caney hard today and not sure there are any crappie left down there.

Just messin with ya, we caught these on Sunday down there.

Stay home, stay alive, read your manual.........

I'd have to agree with all the above. Stay safe, stay alive and keep your new boat afloat. There are also Boater Safety Courses available that will lessen the learning curve. Take one.
P.S. Congrats on the new boat, got Pix?

A day reading about our success is better than reading about our Loss of Your death!

Well, I think most everyone has weighed in on this one. I have a Lund which is built for high winds and even then, I don't both if winds begin to even approach 15 mph. It is just too hard with to hold the boat on structure or brush under these conditions. On the other hand, if you want to cat fish and anchor, no issues, but this is the crappie board.

Best,

Lund 17.5

stay home...high winds suck

Wait..Trust Me

I DONT HAVE ANY YET

Don't go. From the sound of your post you MUST take a boater safety course before you go again!

I agree, wait until you're more familiar with your boat. In time, you'll get a better feeling for what you can and can't do safely in it, as well as what you're COMFORTABLE with. Starting out with my 16' bay boat, I was rather nervous about anything approaching 15 mph, now, I've learned it ALL depends on the lake. Some lakes I wouldn't be scared to run the 4 miles to my catfish spots in a 20-25 mph wind, others I wouldn't want any part of in anything over 10 mph. Learn the boat and learn the nature of the lake first.

The wife and I got caught on CC a few years back on a freakie day of 60 mph straight line winds.To this day no weather man saw it coming and believe me it was something I never want to go through again.I am an experienced boater and was in a 20' pontoon and never want to go through that again.

And then the getting the boat back on the trailer with all the swells was a site to behold. The swells were popping the 2x12's off the dock and the wife was driving the boat and I was doing the drop the trailer in the water(she does't back up good). Told her we had one chance to hit the trailer or the boat was going to be in the truck with me.Low and behold she hit the waves just right with speed and water going back out and hit it dead on, the first time.Man was I a proud Hubby. There were about five or six guys pulling boats out of the water that had been bent in half because they were tied off at the dock watching while she dove it on like a champ and started cheering for her.She was hard to live with after that, but I will trust her to get the boat out anywhere now. I just knew she could do and she came through when the chips was agianst us.

We spent the rest of the afternoon helping people pull their boats,what was left of them, out of the water and getting them loaded on trailers.

Scariest day I ever spent on a lake.

There is nothing more powerful than Mother Nature !!! You can never be too prepared, but you have to keep a cool head about you and reason out your every move to get from point "A" to point "B" without going down. Boating is something that can not be taken lightly and if you do, you may be the one everyone will see on the 6 o'clock news and reading about you in the paper.

Get training and know what your boat and you are capable of handling.

Enjoy the lake but always respect the lake. It was there before you and be there after you.

Paul