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Nearly all of the shacks and shanty's are off the lake. Not sure what travel will be like unless someone plows ahead of the fishing contest.
Travel conditions on the ice are finally good. The ice thickness remains varriable so be careful, expecially in areas that have current.
The fishing the last several days has been much better as we've finally been able to acccess deeper areas with some flow. Walleye, pike and panfish have all been active. Jigging spoons and deadsticking have both worked.
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The ice remains highly varriable. Where we are fishing there is about 16" of good solid ice. Trucks are finally out (as of Saturday) to many of the most popular spots. However, the snowmobile races were canceled becasuse there was only 5" on that end of the lake.
Fishing this weekend was slower than what I expected but we did manage some perch and crappie on deadsticks in 15-20 FOW. Plenty of fish on the locator, just not that many would bite any kind of agressively worked baits.
Fishing remains slow, but ice conditions are improving and access to areas away from shore should be good by the weekend or soon after. The walleye have been active in low light in the shallow accessable area with both live bait and minnow imitations working best. Gold, glow and red have been good colors. No heavy vehicles out yet
The fishing has been slow and very few fishermen have been out. Ice thickness is so varriable that reporting an overall depth is hard. Protected areas could have 10-12" of solid ice, areas away from shore with flow and water/slush on top can be as little as 3" according to the few folks that have ventured out.
A few walleye and perch are being caught, but access to the areas that are typically good is mostly non-existant. Possibly after the next cool down?
Got out a couple times over the last few days with minimal luck. Travel conditions without a snowmobile are impossible on the part of the lake I fish. Walking out only. Have managed a few walleye in 8-10 FOW on minnows or jigging spoons. Mostly a dusk bite where I've been forced to fish. Maybe with some colder weather the ice will get better but right now the depth is highly varriable and there is a bunch of slush and water on the ice.
Finally got out for some walleye fishing last weekend. Fished an early ice spot as I was not sure how thick the ice might be. Fishing was slow, but we managed to get a few for the frying pan. Larger minnows on tip downs worked for us. Looking foward to getting a little further out on the lake soon, but the recent heavy snow may push that back a few more days.
Walleye were active just before dark in 5-8 FOW.
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The lake turned over this last week. Fish are moving to thier fall/early winter patterns where they stage off of shallower areas where they are feeding on smaller fish and minnows. Current is down due to very low water levels in the rivers that feed the flowage which means the fish are more spread out and relating to breaklines in depth and structure vs current.