Shallow bays

[walleyeslammer]

Have any of the shallow bays in the Alexandria area started to break up yet or are they still solid. I head up there every spring for crappies and am really getting antsy

[slurpie]

how long do you wait to start fishing them little bays? couple days or a week after ice out? But i have not seen any breaking up in the willmar area yet.

[hhguide]

I was out last weekend I can tell you that there still solid ice on them and for the fishing it depends on the lake some small lakes as soon as its out head into the bays but on big ones it can be different!

[Wayne Ek]

It will be a little longer, I'm looking at 2 ATV's sitting out on the bay we are on right now. The smaller lakes and any boat channel or man made marina is usually the first to turn on once the ice go's out. If the ice go's out in the morning, by late afternoon you can start looking for the movement to start.

[BobT]

I would suspect that we will need to stop getting snow before the lake ice will start to succumb to the sun's power. As long as the white snow cover is on top, the ice won't change much. Once the snow is finally gone and we get more sunshine it won't take long.

Bob

[101winchester]

Looking at this weekend's forecast, sounds like some more white stuff headed our way.

[PerchJrkr]

my official guess is that the ice will be out just in time for walleye opener...

[WaveWacker]

Late ice out and cold water temps. Walleye's may be a little slow on Ida for opener (which is typical for me). I may have to stick to chasing some monster crappie's.