Thanks for the posts, I was concerned about the depth. I was leaning toward panfish over trout because of the winter kill. I mis spoke about the depth. The lake usually has no more than 14" to 18" of ice in winter, then another 5 feet or so of water. It has mostly a muddy bottom with sporatic vedgetation. Not sure how well SMB would do there as there are no rocks (even though it is in the heart of the Canadian shield} We are new to the property and are sure there isn't much in the lake other than excessive amounts of mud minnows as we have trapped them and it seems others have too.
I'm aware of the difficulties of Crappie but thought they would be resiliant enough to survive. Mixed with YP and maybe a few Walleye I guess we'll see how it goes.
Planning on setting structure and ice fishing as well.
