A friend and I hit a couple of lakes north of Robertson ND before I came back to work. It was the same old story when we got there. Talked to a couple of guys and they say "You should of been here last week. There were about 300 trucks on the ice and the perch bite was crazy!" Fished most of the day in -4 temps with a 15 mph wind inside my flipover and didn't mark a fish. Just couldn't find them anywhere. One of the best things all day was the roll of elk sausage that got cooked up and made into sandwiches, the other was just sitting and BS'ing with a good friend.