MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
Well, might not be any ice fishing at all this year north of 8. End of November looked promising:Since then there's been really no more ice (was < 2") but 4 - 5" of wet heavy snow on top. Then 3 - 4 days of thawing until the whole thing became a slushy mess. This is yesterday afternoon:Now for the disaster part. Saturday into Sunday the forecast is 6 - 8" of snow followed by not a single day above freezing for the next 5 days. AND another potential 3" of snow at the end of that.Might be over before it starts. I have zero hope of being able to peel all that off and start over.
been checking a dozen or so lakes from Lk Alice up to N.Twin.they were just about ready to fish, then that heavy snow crushed them.the warm up the last 3 days looks to have melted all the snow and we get a reset, starting next week.
Three Lakes has a happy update. When I left after the second significant snow on top of barely 2" of sketchy ice I was ready to call it a season as I HATE slush. However things changed for the better. Warm weather melted most if not all the snow on the lake (at least out in front) and cold weather behind has a nice solid 6".That warm weather did bring some pretty good wind. High gust here measured 76 mph with sustained @ 35 - 40. Did some damage too. Lots of stuff down.Any dead branches are now on the groundBut the highlight was the 120 foot pine that uprooted on the lakeshore:Pretty impressive stuff. Someone I know is gettin' a new boat lift It was so close to crushing my neighbors boat house half a dozen or so big branches were bowed up against it.
Came up to Barron county for a few days. Ice is anywhere from 7 to 11 inches. Slow bite this past weekend, did good on perch today. Nothing big but good quantity. If you're close check out lake chetac. Every lake I saw has atvs on it.