[eyeon2]

Drove the entire lake.     Still a bit high, but about 70% of main lake still has some ice.   Blawkhawk, Pony / Long still locked in but not safe.  About 1 - 1.5 of soft ice everwhere.  A bit muddy, but cleaning up.   Reserve channels appeared to be much cleaner which is typical.   Open  muddy water from North Fork all the way past Dream.

Normal panfish areas should be good by weekend.  Saugeye humps and bumps may be a bit iffy unless we get into single digits.

[polarbear]

The next ten days looks good for packing some ice on. Single digit temp and even temps below zero.

[fishintechnician]

Please keep this updated, if we get good ice by wed id like to get on somewhere. If anyone can get out, conditions permitting, let me know and we can meet up.

[Mullygyn]

I knew of somebody fishing the first pull off...

[megan66]

I was fishing first pull off at Long Island today!

15 gills!  Shaky but safe in a very small area!

[davidhoheisel]

This was a very good quality post. Thanks

I would like to get over on Friday or Saturday if its safe.

Please keep us posted if you get back later this week.

[fishintechnician]

Dave if your going fri or sat and want some company let me know, I'm free all day both days. We could meet and ride together or just meet there. Id split the costs w you.

[eyeon2]

On ice this am in my channel. 2 inches clear and hard ice. On issue is that gills I found were about the same size. Will be able to go about anywhere by Thursday with 0 degrees tomorrow.

[MW-Fishing]

I was out yesterday with my dad. We drove to the nature preserve and it only had 1 inch of ice. Then we went to blackhawk and saw a lot of open water. Ended up going to Long island to the first pull off and found 3 inches of solid ice to fish. We only fished 2 hours (9am-11am) and caught 5 nice gills. We missed probably a dozen more including a GIANT crappie. The ice was popping a lot, which means ice is growing. It freaked my dad out though. FYI The Game Warden stopped out and checked our license and also our buckets. So make sure you have everything in order. Safe fishing everyone.
Maxdad

[fishintechnician]

Whats up W checking the buckets? For fish I would guess? I am hoping to go fri morn? If not the morn def the eve. Anyone wanna meet up and go?

[davidhoheisel]

Fishintechnician,

CRV and I are looking to go on Friday and you can ride with us if we can get everything in his truck. The more the merrier and easier on the wallet.

PM with your phone number and we can set it up.

[fishintechnician]

Dave I sent you my number. Let me know if you got it. Not sure incident or not.