Twin lakes area ?

[davemillertime]

was just wondering if anyone has been out to the twin lakes area? Iam planning on heading out ther saturday morn to check one of my favorite blue gill lakes ""Sandy ""
  Does anyone else fish out that way ?

[Prehnite44]

I am heading out of town (Chicago, San Francisco, Chicago, Guatemala, Chicago) and wont be able to fish till february, but I was also thinking of trying sandy lake on the way out of town. How good is the early morning bite there? I think the lake probably has solid ice by now with these temps. (Roland was ice over before thanksgiving, and it's much bigger and deeper)

[Flag UP]

Be careful! With all the snow up that way the ice may not be too good. Good luck if you do go and let us know about the conditions.

[Woodland]

I have a buddy that fished sandy last weekend, but he fishes ice i wouldnt let my dog walk on. I walked out on gerald last weekend. got 20 feet from shore, my spud went through like butter. I'll give gerald one more week

[davemillertime]

I have a buddy that fished sandy last weekend, but he fishes ice i wouldnt let my dog walk on. I walked out on gerald last weekend. got 20 feet from shore, my spud went through like butter. I'll give gerald one more week

im going to give it a try tomarrow with a few buddys so hopefully we can get on

[bearfinder]

I'm going to give it a try tomarrow with a few buddys so hopefully we can get on

be carefull the ice further north is not good yet

[davemillertime]

Hey bearfinder where Ya mean north  what lakes did ya check ?

[Prehnite44]

dmt, any luck on finding good ice/fish. Didn't end up getting out myself due to late start in packing. Ice in Illinois might be in for hard times, as it's pouring rain outside 

[davemillertime]

Yeah we fished Sandy today LOTS of snow out there ice was kinda SPOOKY about 2in of crappy
ice. Itook home about 10 good size Gills and missed a few more, I was thinking about goin back on monday but the weather is not lookin too good.

P.S if you go BE VERY VERY CAREFUL and I dont recomend going alone 

[Chris Raymond]

Yeah we fished Sandy today LOTS of snow out there ice was kinda SPOOKY about 2in of crappy
ice. Itook home about 10 good size Gills and missed a few more, I was thinking about goin back on monday but the weather is not lookin too good.

P.S if you go BE VERY VERY CAREFUL and I dont recomend going alone 

DMT--Did you have a blue truck with a plow blade on the front?  I checked out about half a dozen lakes today and didn't bother to go all the way in on Sandy but saw that truck. 

[wedkarz]

Has anybody recently checked on how Otter Lake is doin?

[Chris Raymond]

Has anybody recently checked on how Otter Lake is doin?

Stopped by yesterday.  It was about 3" of white (ice) no more than 50' out and about 4"-5" or so about 20' out from the launch.  A fair amount of slush on top.  A couple of other guys were there testing ice.  I didn't speak with them but they went south along the shore to check in front of the weed beds.  They didn't get too far.  Might hit it today, if I can get all my Christmastodos done this morning. 

The active spot was Portage, folks in perms are already out in the main lake.  Many people in the narrows.  Only two shanties on the far side in Chassell Bay.  I didn't check the ice as I was running short on time and wasn't going to be able to fish. 

[wedkarz]

Might hit it today, if I can get all my Christmastodos done this morning. 

Let me know how you do if you end up going

[davemillertime]

DMT--Did you have a blue truck with a plow blade on the front?  I checked out about half a dozen lakes today and didn't bother to go all the way in on Sandy but saw that truck.  LOL yeah chris that was us a buddy of mine drove yesterday and decided to plow a little back there """ BIG MISTAKE """" we got stuck and had to dig out by hand it took us atleast an hour to dig out but did manage to fish after that .How were the other lakes you checked ?like I said before if you decide to fish Sandy BE VERY VERY CAREFUL that ice is not at all in good shape hopefully a week or two it will get better.If you decide to go let me know maybee i can join ya 

[Chris Raymond]

Let me know how you do if you end up going

WK--Didn't get out unfortunately due to other obligations and such. 

DMT--Thanks for the head's up on the ice out there.  I'm not a fan of white first ice.  I just wait a little bit for things to sort themselves out.  Wish we wouldn't have had all this damn snow. 

[Woodland]

it is suppose to get down to the negatives this week. That will make some ice for us!

[davemillertime]

well i think iam going to give it a try again on saturday.Anyone else want fish saturday ?maybee meet up at the lake ?

[bullydog324]

well i think iam going to give it a try again on saturday.Anyone else want fish saturday ?maybee meet up at the lake ?

I'll be down here in Alpena til after Christmas but I'm good to go when I come back.

[srobocop]

davemillertime, I'm thinking of making a trip up to Houghton to fish sometime next month on a weekend. If you want to meet up let me know.

[davemillertime]

I'll be down here in Alpena til after Christmas but I'm good to go when I come back.

well lets hook up after ya get back . i have to go down to Brighton for xmas and willl be back on new years eve""""with my new vexlar fl-18""'

[davemillertime]

davemillertime, I'm thinking of making a trip up to Houghton to fish sometime next month on a weekend. If you want to meet up let me know.

Lets do it let me know before ya get to town 

[k_bay_killer]

Sandy was the first lake I fished this year. I went there on the 29th and sleighed the bluegill. I quit counting after 50, and caught many more than that. I ended up taking home my limit with a handful that were a little bigger than my hand. 1 crappie in the mix. The ice was very, very shady. It was about an inch and a half of black ice with about an inch of slush, with a frozen crust on that. So every step I took I was breaking through that crust, praying I'm not going swimming. Let's face it...I was desperate after not being able to ice fish last season. But that lake produces on first ice. Went back the next week with a buddy and sat in over a foot of snow and some slush, and the ice wasn't much thicker. We probably got 6 bluegill total and a few bass. We packed it up after a while and went and tried some of those no-name ponds on the side of the highway.

[davemillertime]

Sandy was the first lake I fished this year. I went there on the 29th and sleighed the bluegill. I quit counting after 50, and caught many more than that. I ended up taking home my limit with a handful that were a little bigger than my hand. 1 crappie in the mix. The ice was very, very shady. It was about an inch and a half of black ice with about an inch of slush, with a frozen crust on that. So every step I took I was breaking through that crust, praying I'm not going swimming. Let's face it...I was desperate after not being able to ice fish last season. But that lake produces on first ice. Went back the next week with a buddy and sat in over a foot of snow and some slush, and the ice wasn't much thicker. We probably got 6 bluegill total and a few bass. We packed it up after a while and went and tried some of those no-name ponds on the side of the highway.

 Ill be headed there in the morn. How did you do on those other lakes ? If ya go this weekend and see a green dodge Ram stop by and say hello

[k_bay_killer]

Hope you caught a lot there. You find any crappie in there? I've had my share of bluegill this year so far. I like hitting those small lakes up early while I wait for kbay to freeze. I live in Lake Linden so I don't make it by there much unless I'm going to fish.