>>2846237They bite the most from my dock and it’s hard to not just throw a line in and check it once an hour. It’s pretty wild in that during the winter the same areas I get pike in don’t produce that much during the summer.
While there’s a historic pollution issue since it’s a mining town, I’ve seen a lot of other species in the lake that signal decent ecosystem health. Otters, sum water bugs, frogs of various types, beaversmuskrats and mink, other misc animals not so tolerant of pollution that it’s hard to make a determination for sure as to whether or not these are for real cancer fish. goddamn government says I can have 30 fish meals a month (most species combined) from this body of water so I while im not one to trust the government I feel like some fish in the freezer isn’t that big a deal.
Pretty hard to catch catfish and not also be catching panfish. They just aren’t that big of a proportion of the population in my lake + don’t become hand size pan size easily. Apparently bass are in the lake too but they’re rare, lots of big pike and walleye in the lake I just need to take the boat out to reliably get them
