My buddies and I use to fish it 20+ yrs.ago for northerns.One thing that we caught by surprise was a 1.5lb white crappie on a tipup with a shiner.I did see some big northerns caught also……Pickeral was another good place to tipup fish in that area.
I seen an entire *family* of folks down there last april, and more coming down the trail on my walk back.. every one of them was casting a spinnerbait(dozen people).
Theres obviosly something still in there.. or still is if they didnt all leave in buckets.
I did call the TIP line.. who knows if they ever got down there to check it out.