garfield lake

[WALLEYE3_2000]

I will be fishing this lake for the first time beginning june 1st. any information would be appreciated.

[Gofishleech]

I live near this lake and it can be greta in the spring. Good news for you is it may still be spring in June. But after the spring bite your time will be better spent fishing eyes an hour or so before dark, and after dark. A good spot is the shore line running north from sunset point. Follow the 15 to 20 ft break line with a lindy and a leech. After dark tie on floating rap (#9) and move into 5 to 7 ft along the same shoreline.<BR>If you have to go out during mid day, there is one hump on the lake. It is right in the center and tops out 20 to 25 ft.<P>Good luck

[Guest]

There is also a sand bar straight out in front of the dirt road on the north end, go out from where the road comes to the lake. The road then turns and follows the north shore, I spent my whole childhood fishing this break line. The sand bar is right in front of the 90 degree turn, in about 12ft. There is also a pile of old Christmas trees that were planted about twenty five years ago directly in front of the biggest white pine on the north shore, don't know how they got there. haha I had a 55 gal drum full of rocks for our boat, out there also. Had a lot of laughs at the people that would hook it and spend time fishing that area because they thought a big one broke their line. It is a tough lake, if the temps are warm hit the island mentioned in the previous post. You can find that by heading south straight out from that road I was telling you about. Unless something has happened to the lake level, it topped out at about 17ft when I was a kid.

[WALLEYE3_2000]

thanks for the info guys. i live on devils lake in north dakota and i sit here today looking at 6 inches of snow that fell last nite. my boat has been hitched to my truck for 10 days waiting for spring.<P>i will be meeting a group of about 10 friends at garfield for our annual get-together which we have done for about 15 years. i took the traveling trophy last year with a 7.5 walleye but they sold the resort we used to go to at perham, mn. and now only rent for the season. always fun trying a new lake. thanks again