I appreciate the feedback guys. I thought I'd follow up and let you know how it went. I spent about two and a half hours in the area about 75 yards N/NE of the boat dock 12'-14' of water. There were 4 of us. We had 10 tip ups with varying sizes of minnows and chubs spread all over. And about 6-8 lines in the water jigging with small minnows and waxes...caught 1 16" bass on a big chub.. That's it though. There was a couple groups fishing close to us over a brush pike and they had picked up several crappie, all under 9" though they said.
Then we went straight across the lake and spent about 2 and a half hours over there fishing over a bigger brush pile and had tip-ups spread out just off the channel. Had several soft biters but no fish. Wind was pretty cold and things were slow so we called it.
Also, I talked to a couple guys who had went in the ice out there and I found several bad spots in the middle of really good ice. Dangerous place right now in my opinion. I was using the spud bar crossing the lake at one point and had water bubble up when hit the ice a few feet ahead of me once.
I think that'll probably do it for me ice fishing this year unless I head north....unfortunately .
