Category: Ice Conditions & Weather Reports

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…

The mild temperatures are taking a toll on the  ice conditions. There’s a lot of water on top after today’s rain and well above freezing temperatures. Anglers are just gonna have to be very cautious around the landings and in any shallow areas until we freeze up again. The ice has been on the move.…

It’s slipperier than snot on a door knob and the winds were 15-20 MPH out of the south on Sunday. I’m not sure what’s worse, warm and slippery or really cold and snowy with that wind. Both have their cons but I prefer the cold blowing snow. Fish are being caught, but the pressure of…

The bite has calmed for most anglers and is no different for some others. Figure out those secrets that coax walleyes to strike and you’ll be eating good on slow days too. A lot of dropped flags and eyes passing right by anything anglers presented seems to be a common complaint. Trucks overflowing the Kipling…