10-11 inches To The West 8-9 In The East, So We Are Getting There Starting to get some good ice thickness out there, had our 1st almost a ‘Foot’ yesterday and saw 10-11 inches today. Now this was on the western portion of the fishery, so the eastern side is going to be 3-5 inches thinner but coming close to…
Eyes Are Biting! Extreme cold means they are either going to be totally shut down or they are going to be all fired up. The latter was the case today as they are coming in batches and biting in under 10 feet of water today. Buckshot’s and minnow heads were the key. We had 11.5 inches of ice where…
Weathered The Warm-Up Now It’s Ice Making Time! Temperatures are going to begin to drop again and I think we will finally be past the point of having to worry too much about ice depth b the weekend. Today’s wind kept us off the lake and the Vikings game was calling my name yesterday. Sam Darnold doing Sam Darnold things…
Got Frogs??!! Cause Our Eyes Did!! Never ceases to amaze me the sorts of things that we find in the stomachs of our fish, today it was half digested and only partly digested Frogs! Of course the perch were loaded with shrimp, which never surprises us. A little deeper but under 30 feet of water and adjacent to the flooded…
Gained An Inch and Three Quarters In 36 Hours Making Ice! We gained an inch and three quarters in 36 hours, so it is obvious that we are making ice pretty quickly. Now with the at being said, we don’t have a whole lot of pressure ridges yet, but with that kind of ice making you can be sure, they…
