Ice Conditions, Weather Reports, and More!

Little by little we’re getting more ice. The perch are hot, Pike are hitting and the Walleye bite is picking up… as predicted. It takes a little coaxing yet, but they’re coming around. The steady barometer doesn’t hurt either. Friday afternoon and into Saturday, the rising barometer should send em deep for the weekend. We’ll see.…

It got a little warm today for my taste, pushing just over that 32° mark. So it’s a little sloppy getting around for one more day, but we’re gonna freeze up really good for the weekend. The walleye should be hungry too cuz they’ve been on a diet. Unless tempted by a seasoned anglers tricks.…

Travel today about the Bay was a complete joy as the sun peaked out in what seems like forever. Pike have had a good appetite and some anglers are reporting fish over 40”. You can use a jig rod, tip ups or maybe ya wanna lure one in and stick it with a spear. No…

The ice is great, the snow is settling, there’s a fair amount of slush, but nothing that’s going to eat you up and keep you from fishing. The crack still runs across the upper Bay and you can punch your foot through it on the very edge, but I’ve been crossing it with Mr. B.A.…

Slush has come about the Bay now that we’ve had a number of anglers out there drilling holes this weekend. The snow has settling down to about 6 inches now. Light machine traffic from the landings out onto the Bay has packed down some pretty nice thorough fairs and traveling about is more than ideal…

So here’s the deal. Fishing isn’t as good as first ice but it’s pretty good. And if you can’t get em to bite, I can tell you right now there’s a lot of fish down there. We got about 8 inches of snow and 6-8” of ice out on the Bay.  Everything north of the…

There is 6-8 inches of ice on Little Bay de Noc and all the typical bad spots are bad. At the shop, we decided to inform anglers to avoid the first yellow gate. Another wheeled machine busted through up der off that gate. Butlers Island and the bar/reef off it is like a Venus fly…

The ice is looking as good as we can expect. Most of the water on the ice toilet bowled RIGHT DOWN last night, leaving just a couple inches of water behind to freeze up. If you get past the landings and stay out of the shallows, we’ve got 6 to 8 inches out there yet.…

After the weekends, wind and rain into today, we’re ready for a cool down. Tonight around 1 AM we’re dipping down below 32° for the first time in a while.  If we only get 3 inches of the snow they’re forecasting of 3-5 Thursday and lower temperatures look ideal to firm up the playground by…