Terrible place - don't go there!!
The road is impassible and the boat launch is impossible. Actually, I'm just discouraging people from going there so I can enjoy it with less traffic. The road used to be 4x4 only when it was wet. Now it is just "go very slow" in some low spots if it is wet, if you are towing, because you could bounce the boat off. Muddy, but you can take a small motorhome in there now, if you want. The boat launch is still (even the new one) too shallow for big boats, unless you have a jacked up big 4x4 that can back out about 50 yards and handle the sand. It is fine for smaller boats that one can "wrestle" on and off the trailer if you don't have that big high 4x4. I selfishly wish they hadn't improved the road.
Anyway, if you do go there, please promise that you will not kill and keep any 100 cm + Pike if you should catch one. Take a picture and let her go, please!! Not common any more, but still around, and diminishing due to the stupid regs allowing them to be kept, and the stupid people who kill them. I still can't understand why anyone would want to keep one of those old girls. Not great eating, and better to put it back for someone else to catch again. It is ridiculously easy to catch your 1 per person over 50 cm Walleye keepers there - they are way better eating and very common - we get many of them as "bycatch" when seeking the big Pike. This could still continue to be a really great place to go for the real fishermen if the authorities would just institute complete C&R on the Pike, and enforce it.
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