Ice Conditions, Weather Reports, and More!

If you’re not out there right now, you’re probably thinking…I should be by the weekend, right? Yep, get your Angling Ass out der. The last few days we’ve had a real good bite. We’re peaking fast with this recent up tick feeding. The weather pattern over the next week looks like it should last through…

Let’s catch up. It’s been a while. As predicted, the bite has absolutely turned on with the warm up. Big fish are abundant and roaming The Bay. Tip-ups seem to be the ticket for big fish. The perch are sizable and have been hungry too. Ice conditions are holding up well as a thin blanket…

What’s this? Above zero temperatures again? If warm-ups trigger the bite, these fish are going to eat like crazy over the next week. A couple days of forecasted highs over 35 degrees are on the horizon. These temperatures above 32° will be brief and below freezing temperatures in the overnights are sure to maintain the…

Today was a very windy day on the Bay. Snow, sunshine, snow, wind, snow, sunshine, snow, wind. Finally, it was a typical day on the Noc. Snow is drifting with no slush to speak of. It has all hardened up now. The crack across the bay from the Days River to the Vagabond is all…

The ice on Little Bay de Noc is getting thicker by the minute. We’ve got a solid 9 to 12 inches on the Upper Bay. There is also good ice down past Gladstone and Escanaba and it’s forming pretty good down by the Ford River and even further south too. Take your cleats because there’s…

At 5 o’clock this morning I looked at the temperature and it was 8° below zero. I thought, wow this is gonna be tough to get acclimated to! We’ve hardly touched zero this winter. Confronting it head on, I took a ride out on the Bay before sunrise to enjoy the ice pop as the…

Ya Baby! We’re finally enjoying sub zero weather. We had bright sunshine as I did ice measurements this afternoon from the Kipling Landing throughout the Bay north of the narrows. We have 8-11”s. Fish did get a little tight lipped with this cold front. Speaking of cold fronts, I know it was forecast, but returning…

l All right, two nights without a report just means we’ve been slammed around here, but in a good way. Ice conditions could not be better with the exception of a couple pockets of slush from cracks forming and water pushing up them. With the cold temps this week those are all gonna freeze up…

Usually I don’t run out of time to write a report until Saturday. Here it is only Thursday and this day is almost over. Where does time go? Besides, aren’t the days supposed to be getting longer? The ice is great, travel on the Bay is awesome and the walleye are eating more every day.…