Safe ice Carroll area?

[Bbushong]

Anyone local to the Carroll area been checking ice? Ill be up there for the weekend and was hoping to try Black Hawk lake by lake view. DNR page said part of the lake had 5" before the rain and it lo ok ks like it got cold again up there. Any insight would be appreciated!

[crappeye]

There was some shacks on black hawk yesterday. I haven’t checked but the ponds took a beating from the rain. Lots of open water south of hwy30.

[Bbushong]

Thanks for the update. Ya im down in Des Moines area and everything opened back up around here. Hoping to get out up there for a few hours Saturday anyways. Never been up there but the stocking reports look good.

[Ice_Fly_Guy]

I'm not sure but I will try to look for guys on the ice Friday and post back.  I was on a pond just a bit south of Lake View yesterday and it had around 4".

[Bbushong]

Thanks id appreciate it. Sounds like i will be in luck. Hopefully the fish will cooperate.

[crappeye]

Buddy fished Blackhawk today. He said 5 inches  of soft ice off shotgun hill. Caught lots of small perch.

[Short_Rod]

Is the term "Small Perch" code word for big walleye? lol Seems theres a lot of lakes with a small perch problem this year.

[crappeye]

No. They’re small. The big ones are big if you can catch them.

[Ice_Fly_Guy]

Yeah, there's probably so many shad in Black Hawk now, the perch are given a break and more young are surviving.

[Bbushong]

Plenty of shad and small perch thats for sure. Did find some keeper perch though and one really nice one. There mustve been a pretty good shad kill though because there were dead shad in the ice all over.

[Ice_Fly_Guy]

That's good to know.  I'll be grabbing some for spring cats.