mayhew

[silverbulletguy]

There is a big antenna near the landing. If you are in the area you can just drive towards that.

[Fredd]

Wow, I was on the lake today after being gone for over a week and it was a zoo out there! A group was firing mortars and then fireworks after the sun went down. Vehicles and new villages of houses all over the lake. This lake is getting more pressure this year than I have seen in the four years that I have fished it. Must be all the great reports(??) on FM??

[riverwalker]

Quite amazing how the word spreads around this place. Makes ya wonder if anyone tries anything for themselves anymore??? I bet if I said that a Sartell town pond held crappies there'd be houses out there tomorrow...

[Fredd]

Just what I was thinking....isn't technology wonderful? The other option I have considered is that people are just fishing closer to home with the economy and all.

[osok]

Quite amazing how the word spreads around this place. Makes ya wonder if anyone tries anything for themselves anymore??? I bet if I said that a Sartell town pond held crappies there'd be houses out there tomorrow...

Hey Riverwalker, which Sartell pond was holding all them Croppies??

[jmuff24]

well with the 500 fish houses out there there has to be something biting, but what? and where can i get into the jumbo perch they were talkin bout?

[pushbutton]

the heard mentality often found in ice fishing can either be good or bad for a lake. in the case of mayhew i think it is great. while everyone is chasing round 6 inch perch it keeps them off a good lake that they could deplete.

[jmuff24]

so your saying stay away from the crowd or mayhew is a bad lake?

[huskie0302]

I was just out there a week ago and there weren't that many houses, This is the time of year that it gets over populated!!! How many houses are out there now???

[DHanson]

How in the world did mayhew get 7 pages worth of posts? Guys this is a 120 acre lake...

[jmuff24]

i just got back... probably 20 houses that i could see...

[JoshM]

can you give me some gps locations on that sartell pond

[ASMOLEY]

Pressure on lakes like this is why i started driving an hour to go fishing. Nothing like fighting with a crowd to catch a few stunted perch/crappie. Good luck to all those willing!

[riverwalker]

I think they do show on my gps too....hahaha...Oh but sorry to say I did see that the city banned being on any city ponds due to unsafe ice....sorry

[ChiggerCraw]

I just drove out there to see what the hub bub was about. I couldn't believe my eyes there were at least 7 or 8 traps out along with more than 20 permanents and about a dozen vehicles. When I was a little kid we used to fish below the little dam and catch decent sunfish and heard of some nice northerns being speared during the winter but all there ever have been in Mayhew are dinky fish.