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Hey guys, I'm curious if anyone has some insight to this system and potentially why the lack of fish we experienced? We stayed at Twin Bear camp, it was an amazing price booked by a guy in our group after some financial hardships, I think it's $310 for boat rental, tank of gas, and a weeks stay in a cabin. The cabins were beautiful, the boats were in tip top shape, we fished out of a misty river with a 20 Yamaha that started with a quarter pull every time. It's a very deep river varying from 30-65 feet, very little shoreline because it just drops off so quick. We were targeting Pike casting at the shorelines. Occasionally the fish finder would beep and alert me of a school of fish on the bottom, I'd throw on small jigs with twister tails, gulp minnows, everything I could and could not get a single Jig bite. Over 3 days of hard fishing, and about 4 tanks of gas later we decided to head back to the cottage because we knew we could catch a lot more, and a lot bigger fish there. We tried everything, and I basically almost lost the will to fish. All in all maybe 7 small pike were landed, biggest being 28"? 0 walleye, 1 perch, 3 bass for our group of 4. The river is some of the most beautiful, picturesque land I've ever seen, amazing weed structure, beautiful bays in some nearby lakes. Nothing produced. I'm curious as to why the fishing was so bad? Is it overfished and too many fish harvested? No stocking? We had good luck at the cottage and got on the walleye and musky bite in no time. Are we terrible at fishing or is there no fish? James