7.5 More Inches Of This White Crap Is Not Good!
Well, we were due for one of these winters, and here it is. Seven and a half inches more of this white stuff has travel on the lake basically down to sleds, four-wheelers with tracks, side-by-sides with tracks, Sno-Bears, or hoofing it.
Luckily, there are places in town that will help you out with the track part!
The driving conditions on the lake are about as bad as it can get. A lot of areas with not enough ice for full sized trucks compounded by the fact that even if there was, you wouldn’t get very far anyway.
If you are planning a trip and aren’t with a guide service or a resort that offers fish house rentals, tracked machines are a must unless you plan on hitting up spots that are walking distance from an access point.
The Bright Side
This is what is coming in daily, if you have the means to get out on the lake, the Perch are there and they are biting, and there are some good ones, let me tell ya!
Along with that haul, the waypoints for the 31st through the 2nd are still golden as well, as no one has been back there and we checked them and the fish were still there.
All of our recent fish activity has come in that 28-33 foot range. The pike seem to be invading the shallower, early ice Perch hangouts and the Perch are seeking safety in a little deeper water. If you want to help out with the Devils Lake Fishing Report Pike Eradication efforts, this will help you out:
Be Safe
This last weekend with the storm the search and rescue was called out to Lake Irvine to assist a fisherman in getting off the lake. We go alone a lot too, be sure that you are supplied and prepared for the worst of conditions out there.
No fish is worth your life or the lives of others.
Travel with a good shovel and make sure you have extra gas and water. We don’t want any fishing trip on the Big Devil ending in disaster.
Good Luck out there…
What. Are your ice thicknesses on your perch sites.
6-12 inches, can only get to them walking, wheeler with chains or tracked vehicle, possibly without chains on a four wheeler but I would make sure I had multiple people and a shovel.
Can you reasonably walk to all of them?
This might be a dumb question, but if I purchase a waypoint, what do I get? Is it just number coordinates I have to punch into a gps? Or is it a screenshot of a waypoint marked on a contour map? I’m interested in purchasing some, but can you help me understand exactly what I get?
You will receive via email a PDF document with the picture of how we did, the date of the excursion to that spot and the GPS coordinates of the location.
We rented a house in creel Bay. If we buy numbers will be able to get there reasonably on sleds?
Yes, quite easily actually