Thank you!! 3 feet is a little much for us in a 19 foot boat. Low profile tracker. I dont mind it when we jig but trolling in 3 footers suck. I know the far west is muddy. We usually go out of fenwick....but we thought about the one over by cedar point. Mazurik? Then we could go north and east to get out of the muddy water. Just to troll. I have put in on catawba too just depended on what we read about the fishing. It is early and i have to keep reminding myself that too. Last month we went out of catawba and really done well on niagra reef.A bit of a haul but it was worth it. Actually just west of the reef jigging hair jigs...but we found this little thing we ad to it and it really produces fish. The fish were all jacks and not huge but darn good eaters. One huge female that we released. are you near the besse tower? When you look at the lake what part is it?