What length snell???

I’ll be up in Ely fishing a very dark water lake the last week of August. It’s a new lake for me (Garden Lk.) so my plan is to try pulling some spinners and cover some water. What length snells should I tie up? Oh, and it is a very rocky bottom lake for the most part, if that makes any difference.

I would start with either a 3 or 4 foot snell. That dark water you might want to look into a blade that is going to put out a ton of vibration, such as Lindy Shake-E blades . Something to get their attention…

I agree with Cal!
Pulling a spinner rig / bottom bouncer is the right track.
Tea stained waters: Orange or hammered Gold would be good starting colors. Especially Orange.

In Tea Stained fisheries like Rainy Lake “Gold” tends to be a productive color. Gold resembles the flash of a small walleye which anglers often forget is a top treat for many game fish!! I also find Chartruesse and Orange or a combination of the two to be very effective. I wouldn’t leave home without the Orange/Chartruesse Firetiger jig from Precision jigs!! The brightest colors in the color spectrum are a nice place to start color wise. With that being said I had a couple boys up here using purple and doing well….”Purple Passion??”. As far as snell length your running on a spinner rig considering your fishing rocky structure it will likely be in your best interest to limit the length. I tend to do more research with multiple jigs and trailers and dropping on fish. In my mind research on a lake is top priority and fish I might catch during the initial search is secondary. Your looking for pods of fish. Once locating pods you likely will be able to duplicate that pattern throughout the lake on similiar found structure. Get a good Map, Tune up your electronics. Up north structure lakes can fish a bit different than lakes with miles of deep flats that fish roam. Just my 2 cents, and I’ve never fished that lake, but I’ve got a hunch!! More important than that will be to correctly match your sinker weight with the speed your traveling. I might suggest searching with your eyes glued to the graph. You will likely learn more from that in regards to that body of water than anything. Different lakes have different holding patterns mostly due to water temps and forage fish relative to that body of water.

Thanks guys! I was up there this weekend bear scouting and took a few hours to do an exploratory trip on Garden Lake. I did not pull any spinners because I forgot them on my work bench at home, where I had been tying them. Anyhow, I did manage to jig some up in predictable locations, so maybe finding them won’t be as hard as I imagined afterall. It still would be nice to try something new. Now, finding them under 17″ might be my next question, as they were all cookie-cutters right around 20-21″ and in that lake they have to be under 17″.

Sorry OU….You’ll have to request information on how to catch SMALL fish from someone else