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well having fished all of them many times..and had property on milakokia.. south mani always seem to have the greater variety of fish..walleyes run small on gogebic(take it from me i have fished the walleye tourney there many years..lol) the perch grow big.....DNR hasnt figured it out in 50 years of trying. milakokia gives up nice fish..the eyes are weed related often lying on top of the larger clumps of submerged weed.. it has it all ..all these curtis lakes are sand or rock shore(except ruby bay on milakokia..lots of rich black muck)..mostly sand..north mani is the toughest fish..it was like a sterile bowl for years..DNR is constantly trying to improve..but when you do hook fish they are generally nice size... big mani is the most hit n miss..eyes and perch abound..some years its great some years it often feels barren. and the size of big mani..pays to have a substantial boat.as you often have to run a ways and she can get the roughest of all the 5 mentioned... you have other options around curtis as well..millecoquins,indian,dollarville flooding and lots of smaller bodies.. i have seen many changes since the 60's..seems this eastern portion of the u.p. was fished hard and many places never came back...gogebic at far west end has about remained the same over 5 decades... if you are looking for a limit of eyes ..i would run over to brimley state park.the bay on the big lake gives up a bunch when they are in..its about 60 mile....hey is it true? that alaskans kind of look at northerns like we look at carp?..trash fish...lol