We rented the lake house because we read in the notes there was a boat and trolling motor available. The home was on an inlet off of the lake with a sizable yard. I brought usual toiletries including shampoo and laundry soap, etc. I am a person that does not want to be somewhere without what I need. When we arrived, we noticed there was only one roll of near empty toilet paper in each bathroom, no soap, no scouring pad in the kitchen, small jar of dish soap, no laundry detergent, one kitchen trash bag and no additional trash bags to change out the trash, a roll of paper towels that was mostly used up, no cleaning supplies despite the website description mentioning having cleaning supplies. You can see one needed to bring quite a lot of stuff to spend 4 nights, there were some pots and pans.
The reason we wanted to go to Toledo Bend was to do some fishing and relax. The boat was an old aluminum jon boat with wide berth which was nice. We found the trolling motor in the garage, which turned out to be a hand-me-down. The throttle kept coming off, so it was a challenge to operate. We loaded up and took off and about 50 yards from the dock ran over an underwater tree trunk and got stuck for about 45 minutes. The trolling motor did not have enough power to get us off. The owners only had ONE boat paddle and it was small. We finally got off of the tree stump and decided to go back to the dock since we could not tell how long the trolling motor would last.
The owner also had an aluminum canoe and a paddle wheeler boat. There were only one paddle so we could not use the canoe.
If we had known the boat situation, we would not have rented this place. We came to fish, and could only do so from the dock and there were so many turtles, they kept getting our bait, so we did not catch anything. Set out a trot line with 25 hooks and the turtles took all the bait.
The home was nice, but was really set up for someone with their own boat and motor.
