Thanks for the report utahman! Got a few lakes about that size on my list to check out in the morning up in that area, thinking I'll find similar ice on some public lakes. 

Tight lines and stay topside fellas!

im from the hayward area. private small lake about 80 acres 14ft deep, frozen over with a good solid clear 2-3 inches and growing. with this weather it should be four by sunday. deeper lakes are not freezing but  there are plenty of small ones around to get out on

I used to fish at night these ponds in the woods. You could smell the deer when they came by. I told my Dad that and he thought I was crazy. Until he came out with me and could smell them too. It wasn't like a whiff, it was like a slap in the face.  You wouldn't hear them either,  just all of a sudden the smell. I know it doesn't pertain to the OP but it had all the elements of recent posts. 

make sure to wear blaze orange out there on first ice this year so you are not victim to someone shooting at something big moving because it must be a deer.

Anyone from the hayward area??

Looks to me like I'll need to get the ice fishing gear ready for a nice change of pace during rifle season.  Adams/Marquette county has one day with an above freezing high temp in the 10 day outlook with a few days dropping well into the single digits.  I've seen people ice fishing during rifle season before, but this looks like we will easily have several inches if the forecast holds true.

Gonna have to turn the countdown clock ahead with this forecast. 

Hard to believe that we'll have ice up by us when we saw water temps of 43 less than two weeks ago. It's gonna be cold!!

Got a mile of ice on upper red already. I'll be on the ice on Saturday and Sunday somewhere in northern WI or MN! It's here folks!

I gotta work the weekend of the 9th. Looking like the 16th before I get out. We might have fishable ice in SE Wisco by then. Crazy.