My nephew and I are going to try and hit some smaller lakes with the canoe next weekend. I don't care how cold it is. I've been digging around Google maps for some small off the beaten path lakes. We'll be on Graves, but might try a smaller lake. Maybe a smaller lake that might be colder is a bad idea, but what the heck.

Anyone know anything about Poverty?
Here's a couple of others no my short list...
Charlotte
Surprise
Little North Star
Forest
Little Ranier
Carpenter
Pickerel

Maybe pike fishing will be the way to go with it being so late in the season. I also saw that people fish the river by the plant up there? That sounds very tempting this time of the year. I wonder if is worth hitting a small lake with it being duck season.

I would watch out for hunters in general, wear lots of orange. Also, be careful using a canoe. Flipping it could be life threatening with the water temp getting down there. Good luck and be safe.

Poverty - no public access that I know of
Little North Star - access through North Star or Kokomo Resort.
I haven't had much sucess there for years.
Surprise. - Used to have lots of bass 1-2 pounds, Has been kind of low the last few years and haven't fished it for a couple of years.
Little Ranier - Winter killed a few years ago. Based on my one trip there, I wouldn't go back.
Carpenter- I've only caught very small bass. Surprise has been better.
I have not fished Charlotte, Pickerel or Forest.
I have seen very few hunters on these lakes and the few I have seen have been careful and courteous.

Good Luck

Thanks for the info. It'll be a big help when we make a choice, especially knowing a lake had a winter kill. Who knows, we may have little ambition and just hit Grave Lake.

So poverty doesn't have a small resort on it? From the little info I could find, it said there was a Woodlands resort? You know if it is private land?

Little North Star can be really good for bass and crappies.
Poverty doesn't have an access but you can carry in from a small trail that gets close to lake. Just make sure you have a gps. It's worth fishing, but not great. Bass, pike, never fished pannies there.
Pickeral has some bass and pike, but we didn't find much.

The river by the power plant was some of the best bass and gill fishing I ever experienced, both numbers and size. Mid-winter it stays open and the bass and big big sunnies flock there. I've seen dozens of bass over 6lbs outta there. The biggest I've seen was 8lbs 5ozs, but that was outta season, they were fishing pannies. Some of the locals found out about it and pounded the snot out of it, now it's still good for numbers but the size is nowhere near what it use to be.

what can you tell me about little ranier fisha halik? its been qiute a while since it froze out. guys at frontier bait have fished it but till give up much useful info. did it freexe out agian recently? we use to do ok there for nords and sunfish.

Nothing, never fished it. Sorry!

does anyone else have any info on little ranier? i would like to fish it agian and maybe check it out for myself one day.

Go try it for yourself. That how you find new honeyholes. Trial and error. Not always easy, but it pays big dividens if you put your time in.

it was a little honey hole for prior to freeze out years back. all iam trying to do is to see if anyone has fished it with ant luck since then. is there an issue with that?

Not at all, but the best info your can get is the stuff you gather yourself.

No issue here buddy, that's what the internet is for. Just a suggestion friend, but most people won't post for millions of people to see. My advice would be to put up you email addy next time ya have a question about a lake in particular. If it is someone's honey hole, they MAY tell you by personal email if it's any good, but they almost certainly won't tell ya on the site. Think about it, what would happen if someone posted on here that last winter they were cleaning up on the 15" crappies and 10" gills on lake x at first ice off the point on the east side in 25 fow suspended 18 ft down on a pink demon.