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I heard the wind finally died down and ice has finally formed but a little rough. A good source said there was about 8 inches a few days ago so i certainly wouldn't wander into the middle yet, she's a deep lake! Hopefully the fishing is good this year, a guy can catch lots of 5-7 pounders but I never hear of any 20 pounders or bigger come out of there and I know a few locals. I think the lakers are almost stunted as there's no large forage fish to grow them huge. If that lake was ever stocked with whitefish I think it would grow some behemoths!
Camped in the winter tent for 2 nights this weekend, fished whiteswan and pinkney. Whiteswan was very busy, the fish were decently active based on my one time past experience there (1 fish iced, no other interested) and i managed to catch one laker, and had another decent on right to the hole and 2 other bites/chases. Most people we talked to had caught 1 or 2 fish. The heave at the launch was as expected our first day upon arrival from what i read online (froze over and well travelled). Returning to the lake the 2nd morning however (sunday) the heave had risen up quite a bit and there was fresh water along it at multiple spots including at the truck path over it. We inspected it and seen that other trucks had went over it so we went out, it was quite a bump though and everyone appeared to be cautious of it which is good.Fished pinkney on monday for a few hours (aside from tip ups while gathering wood and a little evening fishing the previous days). Managed to catch these 2 nice pike (34 and 30 inches). The laker at whiteswan was 24 inches.Whiteswan was pretty good for driving on, some drifts were deep but we had no problems getting around, a number of roads to the multiple shanty villages were also present. We helped push one guy out at the first grouping of shacks who went into one of the bigger drifts. Man are there a ton of shacks out there this year!! I didnt go up last winter but the last time i was up there it didnt seem like this many shacks, but perhaps i didnt see all the ones that were across the lake (do recall shacks at the narrows though).Pinkney was significantly more snow, id definitely say it would not be drive on. After walking on and drilling holes it created a ton of slush around the holes as water came up. Like in at least a 30 ft radius around the holes it seemed like. I have read the lake is generally pretty bad for slush under the snow, it didnt seem to be like that until holes were drilled at least currently.
we were a little later than planned but had hooks in water by 9 am. fishing in front of beach at first group of shacks 45 FOW. Actually marked the most fish around noon. Talked to a few others who also found it slow. Not back till March 10th now, hopefully things pick up. Fished two lakes in NHPP Saturday caught one bow and a nice tiger.
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