Just wanted to post ice conditions as of this morning. 90% of the lake is locked up as of this morning. Most of your access areas are covered and the ice is thin but building. Most ice is just shy of an inch but some areas are skim. We have a few forecast days coming up where the temp goes up to high 30s but it will drop down and keep building. Let’s keep our fingers crossed!

Went out for about 5 hours yesterday. We found fish just about everywhere we looked.
The active fish were suspended at 15 feet over 24 feet of water.
We caught plenty of 8.5 to 9.5 inch fish. We only kept them if they
Were over 10.5 inches. We kept 25 for a nice meal and threw the
Rest back. Fishing is good if you have figured out the new pattern.
Ice was 8 inches where we fished. This snow will keep the lake
From adding too much more ice. We may have fish able ice for
A few more weeks... Hopefully to the end of March!!!!

Took a 2 hour lunch and checked the ice in a few areas around the lake. The recent snow was pushed by the wind into the marina and along the Southeast/East side of the lake. There are now more drifts against the docks. This has not allowed the ice to thicken more than another half inch anywhere drifts are found. The ice out on the main lake varies from 2.5 inches to above 7 inches. The main lake had large open areas towards the campgrounds on Monday. They are now frozen, but cant be more than 2 inches thick. I am going to go back into the marina and shovel some areas around the docks to allow safer access to the marina bays (it will let them freeze up nicely). My suggestion is to be REALLY careful if you are going to go out in the next 2 days (tie off etc.) I found spots near the marina arms that had 7 inches of ice with 2 inches of white ice RIGHT next to them. I actually found 2 good paths onto the main lake and will be keeping those a secret for now I will go out and test some more spots tomorrow and post my findings.