I plan on two trips to Vermillion this year. These will be my first trips to that lake. I have a good Hot Spots map of the lake. Are the hazards as well marked as they appear on this map? Are the large boulders that dot parts of near-shore areas easy to see? Others have told me that the Lake is easy to navigate as long as you pay attention near islands, saddles etc.
Hey my friend,
Most of the hazards on the west end are near the shoreline or in the channels. Wakeumup bay has a few midlake hazards but they are easy to spot.
You will be fishing the shoreline so just keep an eye out for boulders, they can be very Hard… on your trolling motor.
Back bays and areas of the lake that aren’t very
developed, may have some major rocks that aren’t marked near shore and around some of the islands.
Many of the saddles areas will have some boulders some are marked and others won’t be, so the key word is “common sence”. 
wait that’s 2 words!
Ace Guide Service
Beautiful Lake Vermilion
Don’t be too QUICK or you’ll leave SILVER (hull) and gold
(wallet) on the rocks and at the shop.
What side of the lake are you planning on fishing ?
If the west side – I don’t have much info.
The East side, I can help. GUIDEMAN was pretty much
on the nose, common sense will preserve a lot of lower
units. Pay close attention to all Bouys and give them a
wide berth. Some have very shallow rock a good
distance from the marker.
A good GPS route / Chart plotter can be invaluable if
caught out at night – great nite bite – so you could be
tempted. If castin’ for SKI onto wind and wave
pounded humps/points/islands/shore be careful,
the granite comes up quick or a lone “rock” can chew
up the TM or ding the prop/lower unit, with a worst
case of being ‘beached” on the granite only to be
pounded by waves. I’ll I can say is, aluminium can
take a mean beating on the rocks while retrieving a
$40.00 jerk bait 
Or bobbing through the
Fectos point ‘boulder field’ in heavy seas 
burnin’ hair and jerkin’ wood !!
On dead calm days there are a few places to view
the ‘remains’ of lower units 
Great lake, simply beautiful scenery and fantastic
multi-species angling opportunities.
You will not be disapppointed.
Mother
Hi Ace!
What’s shake’en bro?
That Musky banner your talk’en about have my name on it?
Mother where you been Bud?
Seen ya at my front dock when we was puting it in, then never again all season?
Must have called you on that Radio 100 times last spring!
Where ya go man?
Hope Homer J. did not scar ya clean away?
Hell they all got Ace’s number.
They run to the dock like wild fire when ever anyone comes close to the Island in hopes it is him or someone with BEEF!
Must of gotten eat’en up by the Phantom Ski between me & Ace’s place eh?
I have found lots of unmarked stuff over the years and hit some stuff with my Trolling motor to while working a reef or shore line and dragged my skeg on a few things that came up out of no place.
Cruising speed I’m always careful and watching the depth finders for hidden treasure!
Hot Spots map is pretty good for telling or showing people where to find things, but it is a huge lake and there is so much more under the surface that it is to cool.
What you say boys?
That is most of the fun for me really while cruising around doing nothing, fishing or guiding, is looking for and finding stuff that few to no one knows is there.
People who mark the lake do a great job and there are lights to lead the way too.
But Big winds can move markers, so please so do as Ace and Mother mention, Beware and use good sense!
Have fun, but be careful.
As for night fishing, I love it.
Never got lost yet, I’m a natural in the night!
Love to see people’s White knuckles as I burn them back to there home base in the deep dark night!
YeeeeHaaaaaa!!
I love it!
Plus those hounds can find the Island in the darkest, thickest, dead of night Mother Nature can throw at us!
NO fish by my place.
T.
Might be a good idea to bring along an extra prop and a couple handfulls cotterpins. I know I dropped a number of those pesky pins in the lake along with a needle nose pliers.
Hi MT,That is a good idea, it can be a long way back to the dock on the big V. I have been pretty lucky over the years, it seems I’m always close to home when ever I have a problem. (knock on wood) 
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