Category: Ice Conditions & Weather Reports

What an incredible night to be on the Noc. The calm before the storm perhaps? It’s 23° and there is no wind. They are calling for increasing temperatures with rain, ice and sleet tomorrow through early Sunday morning.The picture tonight is of the night view looking North, just north of the Kipling Landing. Increasing your…

The snow has settled a bit.  Trucks are forming paths around. The Little Bay de Noc road plow crew was at it again around the top of the Bay. Trying to unplug the drifting mess from previous plowing attempts, they’ve managed to get a narrow path out the Days River landing. Fortunately, once your out…

The pursuit of fish on Little Bay de Noc has come to an abrupt halt. The last couple inches of snow we got today really did it in. Not that a couple inches of snow is that much more. It’s that much more you can’t see. Those at the top of the Bay off the…

Where the heck did all the anglers go? On Monday and Tuesday it’s been like a ghost town on the Bay. There are very few anglers by their permanent shacks and portables are scarce.  Big walleye congregate in large numbers in small areas right now and there is very little fishing pressure until the weekend…

Most of today was a white out on the Bay as we accumulated another few inches of powder. It’s not too deep to run trucks, it’s just difficult to know where the drifts are because everything looks the same. Except at night, which seems like day, when it comes to seeing what’s in front of…

Looks like the forecasted feeding frenzy didn’t come to fruition for most. A fair number of big fish are being caught though. We’ve heard of very scattered results all the way from deep to shallow water. There seems to be no particular pattern to it. Some are catching fish, some aren’t. The bite windows are…

Today was a duplicate of yesterday but a couple degrees warmer & windy…& the fish are starting to eat! We had more than a few reports come in of big fish being caught. With the warming temps and brilliant sunshine all day we had a slight thaw. With temperatures returning to below freezing tonight, any…

Today we had the absolute best weather conditions to be out on Little Bay de Noc. The pillow of white snow was as smooth as silk and made travel in Mr. B.A. very enjoyable. No screws vibrating out of augers and everything else that doesn’t have Lock-tite. Enjoying the sunshine, shoveling out and maybe even…

It’s gonna be 24° tomorrow and partly cloudy, 32° and sunny on Saturday and 27° on Sunday to wrap up an incredible weekend. Definitely a weekend I wouldn’t wanna miss. The fish are starting to eat again. One fisherman reported a 30” walleye with some undersized eyes. He certainly wasn’t disappointed, but it definitely wasn’t…