Lake Missaukee on a Mission!

[bigjc]

Hey GLB Friends,

Had an opportunity to get up North last weekend, to shoot a video and do some reconnaissance on Lake Missaukee:

[TheFishinPollock]

I would rather fish in and empty bucket full of dirty water than that lake. Have to fish it once a year and dread it.

[bigjc]

I hear that it has really good ice fishing opportunity for Walleye, so for years I have wanted to get familiar with it.  My buddy has a cabin in Irons and we usually go up to the area ice fishing once or twice a year, so I have wanted to find a lake up that way with good opportunities for walleye through the ice.

Besides that, I had primo weather and a great 1/2 day on the water!

JC

[motocross269]

I've done really well there ice fishing for panfish...Never have open water fished it for bass though,,
Big JC...Have you looked at Manistee lake for Ice fishing?? I hear they do pretty good there for perch and walleye and that isn't too far from Irons...

[djkimmel]

You lost me at 'lake full of pike' ... though I watched the video, I will just probably pass on Missaukee as I have when I've driven by it many, many times... glad you fished it for us!

[bigjc]

I've done really well there ice fishing for panfish...Never have open water fished it for bass though,,
Big JC...Have you looked at Manistee lake for Ice fishing?? I hear they do pretty good there for perch and walleye and that isn't too far from Irons...

I have not considered Manistee Lake.  I had no idea they had good walleye thru ice?

[djkimmel]

Probably get some lake run walleye into the lake from the big lake?