I hope to be picking up the 12 ft. boat tomorrow. This should give more access to those trout, bass, and I hope walleye and those silly pikeminnows, they will give a good fight tho. I wanted a 12 ft as this way no trailer to worry about. Where do you think the catfish would be hanging out? When I try for trout, A friend used to launch from what we called 6 mile on the north shore. But from what you were saying, the walleye and crappie are at the upper end, I will launch from the upper launch off of 58. A show on TV on walleye had the guys using A lure called Stop Sign they run in the $4.99-$5.35 price range. They use it more for ice fishing, but who knows.