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In the meantime, there are much bigger bluegills and better crappie populations nearby
Macbride is another one of those lakes i which you really love it and do well there, or really hate it and swear you'll never fish there again....but keep going back hoping that today might be the day, lol. I used to go there all the time, but the irregularity in the ice there just makes me nervous I will just save it for the spring, the crappies are a bit easier to catch during that time for me any way, lol.
I practically lived on that lake during the winters in the crappie boom years of roughly 2004-2009, and I will say that for all the second-hand talk I heard of "springs" on Macbride I never found one, nor have I met anyone who could actually point me to a spot where there is a spring.
On the north arm in the area west of the sailboat ramp there is no water that's even close to 40fow? Deepest water in that area would be about 25fow, unless you were talking about a different ramp. Regardless I've never seen a spring out there either and I've fished pretty much everywhere on the lake. Its been a tough year out there. The walleye bite was good for me early but that went cold quick and the crappie population is pretty low right now.
What can be done with that lake about the small gills? What could the dnr do as far as stocking to help? Debate.
If you leave from the sailing ramp and go around the West point, there is a spot out there that is 40 feet deep. I marked it on the sonar an it's also listed on the navionics map as the same depth.(Image removed from quote.)