Cool info. Sure do appreciate it all.

I ran into a guy here in WI this weekend, said in the spring there can be a two hour wait just to get the boat in… it gets that busy. Is this the case, and is it that packed of a house out there on the water then as well?

Do the trollers tend then to go somewhere else, or join in the middle of all this?

Like the ice fishing… where you see guys all over (my one trip) - are there fish to be caught all around if as a newbie, I'm not looking to get in anyone's way out there? I just want to enjoy the time on the water.

May be a dumb ?? What is the firing range? I mean I get the ideal, but is is active at all, and are there times you are not permitted in the area?