We were there on Sunday fishing for perch/smelt/trout. It was an absolute mess anywhere near the shoreline. A foot of snow on top of a foot of slush/water. This was just a day and a half after the big rain and thaw, so maybe it's drained off some and frozen up by now. We were wearing snowshoes so we had no problem getting around on foot after my tracked ATV got stuck trying to drag our stuff out (this gives you an idea of how bad the conditions were), but the few other people that were out were having a tough time. The fishing stunk to boot. We had six or eight tip ups set with fatheads (on the bottom for perch and just under the ice for trout) and we were jigging too. We only caught a few smallish perch and one smelt (which we put on a tip up). I was marking fish on the sonar frequently but they just didn't want to bite. We saw a couple of not too big browns caught on tip ups baited with smelt right along the shore (5-10 feet of water). We caught a 5 lb brown in the same area last year, so they're in there.
