Massive Cold Front Still Managed 4!!! And Nothing Better For Rapid Ice Making! The ice sheet is getting into that 4-wheel/Side-by-side range, as I have seen a few out already. Couple more days and we will be breaking out the snobears for the year, probably Wednesday or Thursday. Then it is GO TIME!! We were West today, found a…
Damn Dirty Pike Ruined Our Fun 1 Short Just when things were about to get really interesting, in a good way, the damn dirty pike came in and our Walleyes vacated the area; leaving me one short. That’s ok though, there is a lot of time left, and a limit is not the goal, information for you is. I…
One Thing Is For Sure… I Am Not A Quitter!! It might have taken me quite a few locations, 3 different areas and 2 lakes, but I finally got it done today. Location #1 was up on a northern feeder lake and all’s I found was weeds, and lots of them. Most people would have gotten done with 30…
From Open Water Giving Off Power Zapping Steam To 6 Inches Already Things Are About To Get Interesting With temperatures forecast for below zero with wind, I decided that instead of killing myself this early in the season, I would do a big circuit of the lake, to see how the ice was starting to form and where places we…
Fishable Ice?… Yes Biting Fish?… Well… Not wanting to go out for the first time in the dark and not wanting to go out in the dark without drilling first, we probably missed the initial money hour. But we now have what I would call ‘fishable ice’, right at 4 inches. Only on a couple of northern lakes, but fishable…
