Little Sturgeon Bay

Well, I did make it up. Tried out of two different launches. One was on the north west side of Little Sturgeon Bay. The other spot was out of big rock Road? Launch. The ice was usually 7 inches but there were a couple of places that were 4 inches. I didn't really mark anything in the bay, when I went out off of big rock, I did mark some bigger fish moving around near the bottom. People were catching whitefish around around me between 30 and 40 feet of water.

You might see PK out there this morning. The ice was 7 inches out from the boat launch. The airboat has crunched up the ice in the launch area so tread carefully around those areas. We fished monday and wednesday with many small fish bites in 12 foot depths. Waxies ruled and minnows drooled. The biggest fish caught in those two days was 9 inches. The cam showed lots of sniffers and small ones grabbing minnows by the tail and not getting hooked. The search for keeper perch continues.....

any reports on the ice? Hoping to come up Friday to walk out.

Went out the last couple days for a few hours in the afternoon (1/23 and 1/24).

Drove to Little Sturgeon Bay and kept working my way south until I found what looked like safe ice to access deeper water.

Ended up fishing out of Sugar Creek but figured people would still want to know what the ice conditions are like as you head further north into door county.

The main sheet of ice headed offshore is a solid 8-10" of ice but its a bit rough on top and some landings had ​working cracks/open water ​close to shore.

I was able to get out to 20-25 fow before a major crack which I would advise against crossing.

As for the fishing, pretty slow overall. Best action was at last light. Was able to get 3 nice whities yesterday afternoon.

Good luck to anyone planning to venture out and be safe!

Remarkably similar to my report over a year ago (see below). Dropped lines in 13 foot depths this morning and waited.....small fish swarmed in pecking at minnows. Saw a sucker swim by on the cam, but the water was pretty murky to see far. Ended up with three keepers but the bites were few and far between. Every one was pretty spread out on on 5 or so inches of very slick ice.