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When you come out of the launch at murphys go to the first bay to the right and troll in water around 100ft deep give or take. There is plenty of Lakers in there and you should be fine for boat traffic. I use a bait needle and thread a trebble hook through the minnow with about 18in of floro behind ...

Typically I will run two downriggers and a lead core down the shoot if there is three of us and many times the leadcore is the best set up. Try running 6 to 8 colours of leadcore with 50ft of florocarbon behind it, then put a gang troll on it with a minnow behind it. Troll between 1.1 and 1.4mph dep...

Try using a Lindy rig instead of a bottom bouncer, they do the same thing
and it's a lot less of a hassle to fish with. Plus it has a rattle in it.

I caught one close to six pounds about 3 years ago, I was
running my rigger down 80ft with a J9 when it hit.
One and only time that i have caught one there
My buddy and me were pretty suprised when we reeled that in.

That's a Dandy!

:handgestures-thumbup: Good on you Chad for helping the guy out with some specifics, specially the speed. For whatever reason, some people seem hesitant to share info and techniques, even on larger waterbodies. It's funny, when you live close it's just a local lake, but for gatekeeper it's a big to...

gatekeeper wrote:It's the local name for area across from launch off hiway #7 hence italics around name.It's next to river flowing into The "Miss".

It's always been called Mud Lake as long as iv'e known
I believe it's a bird sanctuary, could be wrong

Been out a couple times and managed 5 so far, three over the slot size.
Trolling with a lindy rig and gold worm harness, speed 1.4mph
Good luck

GuinnessGuy wrote:A good way to know if the cat bite is on is if the dandelions are out. As soon as they are out, the bite is on...

I have always went by the crab apple trees... when they start to blossom it's
time to load up on the mickies!!

RJ wrote:3rd week of April I hope to be on Lake Ontario....Locally I have my doubts.

RJ

Keep your eye out for a black Smokercraft, im thinking the same thing...lol

Great hard water season Mike... looking forward to getting out with ya
this spring.
By the way leave some walleye for the rest of us...lol
Do you not know this is a C&R site... lmfao

Congrats. on the P.B. DL
Dandy Slab!!

New moon

I crossed the Miss on my sled today (1st lake) measured 7 to 8 inches
Shack is going out tommorow!

smitty55 wrote:Chad I wasn't aware that there was a problem getting on the ice there. There sure was a lot of vehicles using it last year. Tks for pointing that out.

Cheers

No problems Smitty

Tight lines