Ya its pretty prop safe. In the summer there can be 100 boats out there water sking fishing every thing. Plus theres an airport right there and I've literally seen planes with crazy pilots almost do "touch and go's" on the river, like 3 feet alltitude CRAZY. But any way If im free on fri day I might join ya. I've got an 89 bayliner and I take it out there all year. Be carefull though there can be some big logs floating around, and there are some home made bouys tied to big under water trees so watch out for those. Pretty common sense stuff. If I'm gonna meet you out there on friday I'll PM you. The pickled squid at Dicks have yielded the best results for me, but I've used the ones from bi-mart and had those hit pretty hard to.