Need a good Gill Eye

[NanookofN-MN]

I am looking for a couple good spots for Gills through the ice season.

Thanks

[Swift]

Where are the weeds? What are the base food sources? What's the bottom make-up? Predators?.................Every body of water is usually unique, what's superficially obvious may not really be the answer

[Ryderr]

X2 Swift. If you can find a bottom makeup map, and find fiberous peat, thats a good place to start looking. For Crappie go deep. If thats a creek near the top left of the map feeding into the bay, I would guess you could have some fish in that deep spot there. Word to the wise, fish outside the weed beds not directly in them. And drill a heck of a lot of holes, move move move. My fiance and I are primarly panfisherman in the winter and we drill at least, LEAST, I mean if we have been to that lake and spot a thousand times, AT LEAST 50 holes. For new lakes more like hundreds an outing. 

[icejunky]

both of these are good suggestions. If you dont know the weebeds in the lake, i would start at the mouth of a few of the bays and work in. You will probably find the weedbeds. Im going to tweak what Ryderr said slightly, when you find the weedbed drill just inside it. I like to fish in the bed, but just

[ryno]

I agree with icejunky...get in the weeds.  Don't be afraid to go shallow or fish high in water column.  Also...as previously stated....drill lots of holes.  The key for weeds are green and standing with thicker the better.  Clearings are good if adjacent to heavy weeds...acts as alley ways. Just curios...how far north are ya?  Later in the year fertile flats out deeper should have good populations as well...prolly some early as well too.

[tinyfisher]

I would start in the shallow bays, especially the mouths of the marshes/creeks.  Look for weeds, but don't be afraid to fish weedless areas as well.  Another thing, don't be afraid to check the deeper basins, especially if there's a muck/m arl bottom.  Big gills like deep water!

In other words, keep moving until you find the fish.

[NanookofN-MN]

Thanks for all the tips.  The lake bottom is mostly sand except for the large hole in the main basin.  That is muck.  The stream at the top is an outflow I wish it was an inflow.  I am wondering about the bog that is in the channel right before the main basin.  It is right next to a 10’ deep channel and comes up very quickly.  The rising ground around the bog is also a muck type bottom.  I was thinking of setting up next to the bog in the 10 foot channel and work in slowly.  Any opinions?  The weeds usually start around 6-8’ so I would be basically weed less at 10’ 

[Swift]

How many acres is the lake? Access sites? Map only looks like part of it, what's it like south of the island at the bottom? Sorta like the 10' trough towards the North end and the slow tapering point that rolls into the basin just South of it. If that point has any type of weeds, I'm in and not necessarily going after 'gills

[RIVERRAT2]

Where are the weeds? What are the base food sources? What's the bottom make-up? Predators?.................Every body of water is usually unique, what's superficially obvious may not really be the answer

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