A good place to stay is Ship’s Wheel resort. It’s not a camp ground but they have little cabins and trailors to stay in and the cost was $25 a night per person. We always rented a place just cause it never failed that when we were there the weather was always bad. Don’t have really good answers as to were the pike would be. we were always after the eyes. we did always catch some though. I know that the bay that his docks are in, other guys have caught some big pike in. Theres docks available for your boats, fish house for cleaning if you want to. He has his own private landing there to which is nice. We would always fish that stretch of the river a couple days then trailor the boats and drive to another landing once or twice. You can pm me if you want to know more but the number is 1-800-315-2835 Doug & Kim Brown are the owners