Okay guys and gals,
I am heading for Mantua in the morning. I already have all my stuff packed up and on the trailer, snowmobile, ice house, vexilar, aqua-view, big buddy heater, strikemaster, rods, tackle, bait, and a 12 pack of the good ol’ Mountain dew. I even threw in some hershey bars for good messure.
So I am 100% ready! The only problem is I have no idea where to go… LOL. I can’t find a lake map for it. Can anyone help me out with, either where it get a contour map or a good place to start?
Private message sent with map. Good luck.
This helps thank you. If anyone else has info for me it would be great.
If the map you just got shows water depth, look for water that’s over 12’ deep.
If you find deeper water, you have a better chance of finding Perch, Bluegill and Trout all in the mix.
Rat Finkies and other small jigs worked best for me.
Wax worms were the best bait.
I tried night crawler and Perch meat &eyes with no bites on either.
The best thing you can do is to stay away from the crowd of people.
When it got noisy the fish stopped biting.
Thanks bro. I’ll take all the help I can get.
Here here. I agree with DK. I went yesterday. Seen 2 fish in shallow water camera. Nobody seemed to do well. I’d go right in the middle where deepest water is. A lot went over to the east side. i heard that was slow. We had 1 bite. The middle is your best bet I guess.
Do I need to worry about thin ice in the middle? If I was going by myself its no big deal, but I will have my 3y/o son wiht so I need to make sure it is extra safe. We will have our snowmobile and all our gear, so I am looking for a good 8 inches of ice. What do you think?
There was at least 5" where i was at. There were several snowmobiles that were riding around the east to the north areas. I did not see any snowmobiles ride thru the middle. There was a couple of people fishing in the middle. We would’ve went there ourselves but ill spent our time where we were at.