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Looking forward to your posts Smeltbuster. We were only able to get out twice on the North end of the main lake last year. Hoping the ice develops earlier and stays later this year. Good luck & tight lines...
1st. ice report: South bay is locked up but I could not get on. still too thin.Have some potential bad news. The access at the south end is still available to use, however, there is a barricade & a sign stating that no sleds or snowmobiles are allowed. This has been put there,by the new owner of the store. I fear that some slobs will tear it down or remove sections of the split rail fence so they can get sleds down to the lake. We are 1 step away from loosing the only access on the south end of the lake. We lost the salon on 2nd. bay 3 yrs. ago. Its gonna happen,just a matter of when.The lake is down about 2-3' because they are replacing the dam on Gull creek. Refilling is scheduled to start in a couple of weeks. The lake is locked up to about 2/3 up 2nd. bay. The rest of the lake is wide open. They are also now plowing the snow at Baseline rd. right down to the lake,thus making it very hard to gain access there. About a 3' high snow bank blocking the access. Going to call Ross & Prarieville Twps. about this problem.Slobs have been messing it up for so many years,the landowners are probably trying to shut those access sites down. If you fish south bay,make sure to go in the store & buy something & thank them for the access to the lake. I am going to stop in & ask about doing the garbage can on the dock again. We really need to be careful about this one.
Hey smeltbuster? When you say NO SLEDS do you mean the Jet Sled types that you pull by hand? Just curious.
Had a decent first night on the ice last night. Crappie were tight lipped but managed a few. The small smelt are back in the Bay again this year & stole quite a bit of my bait last night. Saw a couple small Pike brought in on tip ups but not keepers. I went out when the crowds were gone, and I gotta say I was pretty disgusted with the amount of trash left on the ice after one day of fishing. Not a good start to the year.
Imagine that A******s!!!
The scumbags that are littering the ice won't stop because we tell them to do so on this forum. They probably can't figure out how to turn a computer on let alone find this forum.
OH believe me, they can see & respond to this stuff. Posted something on a FB page yesterday about all the trespassing going on out there. Some of the comments were absolutely disgusting. I am no longer on that age. From the responses I got, I figure south bay will be shut down w/ in 2 yrs. if not this year. The loosers think that Gull is a public lake & they can go across any property to get on it. They are going to find out that is not the case. Maybe a trespass ticket will change their minds. Just sayin..............
My point is the losers aren't going to stop just because we tell them to do so on this forum. They are big time losers and just don't care. You just can't fix stupid. Luckily I have access, but still their actions piss me off.
I agree. the store access is my only spot on the south end. I dont really fish there very much. Just sad too see so much disrespect. We have lost so many access points the past 20 yrs. because of slobs. They just dont care. I was really surprised to see that the barricade was still up yesterday. The baycam also showed lots of guys walking on @ the Jaqua dock. Very few guys have permission to do that. Pretty sad.
According to the website, the spillway will be opened up on 01/25.
Has anyone been out to see if the ice is holding up for this weekend?