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Yea I have a flasher was jigging primarily in 84ft of water got 1 chaser but that’s it(had suckers 3 ft of bottom) and yea you’re right I hope it’s overcast tomorrow
Change locations. I am not sure why but tons of guys pound hearthstone and get skunked and return to do the same.
What lures do you guys jig with?
how's nothwest bay for ice
Any solid reports for crown island? I know it just froze last in the area
No good all bad ice and open water real close lots of ridges use ur spud
I didnt see any open water today, made it out to the edge of the old ice to the new black ice, the transition went from around 5-7" to 3" at best east of crown. Had a first timer with me I wasn't going to push it. Saw 2 guys out there in the middle and they didnt stay very long as it started to warm up. There was a fairly wide crack that was around 2 ft wide with 1" of ice. If Snow covered it could get hairy out there. pretty good size pressure crack that runs across the lake but didnt get near it.
Anybody heading out of Vets be careful. Airboat went up the bay at 8:30 tonight. The ice was pushing and working the shoreline the past couple days. Still a lot of open water. Just hoping they find them O.K.
you had to see the huge patch of standing water just ne of crown if you went around the northern point of green island you woulda seen it down that way is real crapty out in front of both islands
I walked around the northern point of green and between the islands to the south end of crown. I didn’t see any big patches of open water. I saw the new sheet of black ice East and northeast of crown. I stabbed the edge of it and it was 3”.
It always blows my mind the conditions that are posted on this forum. I swear people spend more time BS'ing so people don't show up to a spot instead of being honest. Where are you seeing open water in Northwest?
Nw bay is frozen can’t say how good others will be able to clarify on here tho, take what people say on this board with a grain of salt, someone just said the airboat went out of vets take that info and do what you want with it most on here won’t deliberately lie to steer people away some might not say where they are or some might be more timid then others to talk about ice or how safe is safe for them doesn’t mean people are lying there’s good ice all over certain parts of the lake just have to be safe about it
this year everything is sketchy quit asking use your best judgement !
Huh? lol. That just made me dizzy