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Sure is. You don't have to venture far into the lake from the river mouth to be in Musike country

I have been meaning to do this for some number of years, but never got a round tuit. But now I have one. 😉 Doug

Is this the launch? If it is, it's actually a slightly shorter drive (by 15 min) than going to the north end.. that's good.. adds 30 min of fishing!

There's a good launch at the south end of Pigeon opposite of Emily Park on Peace Rd. Launch is on the South West side of the bridge, and a good amount of parking on the North West side. It's a bit of a ride up to the north end from there, but lots of good fishing in between. Lots of those pencil reeds in the south end of the lake. Lots of ski's down there too.

US immigrant, cameras shy, hasn’t got her visa yet. Made by Starcraft, yet again!

Found it, bought it. Tks

Yup There’s a launch that’s free in fees landing. lots of skis in the south end, no need to travel all of the way up north. Find the deepest water down there. as a rule, do not start musky fishing until you have the basic musky tools shopping list. 1. a musky net, a cradle will do if you have multiple people, but a net is needed if solo 2. jaw spreaders 3. bolt cutters, when you hook a musky deep, it’s often easier to simply cut your hooks and perform surgery to remove the hooks that way. 4. A cut proof glove. Big musky, have big mouths that will sometime require you to shove a hand right in to get a hook out. 5. Big long nose pliers. and things to remember, musky die faster out of water than any other fresh water fish, so when handling them, use your net to your advantage. Keep the fish in the water and treat the net like an aquarium. It allows you to unhook the musky, get your camera etc ready etc etc all while the fish is able to breath. This also allows you to contain the fish to revive it at the time of release. A tired musky will often need to be tailed for minutes in order to swim down again. finally don’t fish musky on bass gear unless it’s an XH flipping rod. You don’t want to play these fish, playing them essentially guarantees that they end up dead. practice your gill plate grab. It’s the only way to properly handle the fish, while doing so support their belly. Don’t hang a big fish entirely by it’s gill plate. If you need help with this, YouTube is your friend

Dirt lol. Jk, for years now I have been composting all my vegitable scraps and anything else other than animal/fish protine (trying to not attract critters). In the fall I add as much mulched leaves as I can. This usually yields about 3 5gal pails of good compost every year. I mix this with a couple of bags of tripple mix and use this for my gardens. This year I used it for my pails and as I harvest the pails I plan to just dump that soil back into the composter and mix it back with fresh compost hopfully eliminating the need for buying more tripple mix. The only down side I can find with growing in containers so far is that they have to be watered pretty much every day so if it doesn't rain you have to do it via some other method. As for pros, easy harvesting, little or no weeding, use of space that might otherwise go unused and lots of fresh produce.