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ice conditions on maple lake 7 inches of good ice out there. as for fishing report. NE bay is produciing small northerns caught 3 and missed two on monday dec. 1 it was a constant bite a northern every hour caught. biting every 30 min. all around 15-19 inch mark. Nothing big.

  • 2 weeks later...
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Any updates since the warm weekend and refreeze? How is the ice looking now?

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Crunchy on top with a little snow. Are you heading out this weekend?

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Was thinking about Saturday trying spearing

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The ice should be fine. It was about 8" on a local lake last weekend and everything has re-frozen well. Good luck!

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I'll be back in the area for the next few weeks. Has anyone been brave enough to drive out yet? Anyone finding over 12" of ice on any lakes?

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I have seen some guys drive out to park on the ice near shore on Buffalo access.

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Here is my thing about driving...be the fool to do it and go in I won't feel sorry for you, LOL. and stay away from me haha. but no the ice is good. was out last sunday....had 5-6 inches of ice. now with refreeze solid to walk on and there is actual traction to grip your boots to! instead of an ice rink (shakes head as I try to hand drill a hole last sunday...without spikes) lol. happy fishing! and good luck

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Has it been really warm down there besides the rain/thaw couple of days? I was there a couple of weeks ago, and I thought there was 5-8" then. Not across the whole lake of course, but I figured there has to be 12"-15" by now.

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50 and rain doesn't help the ice at all

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yeah its that little around the area...was only 5-6 last sunday...there should be roughly 7-8 now but just advice been crazy weather and the ice is getting stressed....so if you must drive a wheeler be careful out there....and flags up! smile

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Rain last weekend refroze but the refreeze is not as strong as first ice, true 1st ice-should be good to walk and excercise is good for you! Be glad you don't have to walk thew a foot of snow like last year.

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I went out to buffalo saturday and found close to 12" in the spot we were in. I walked out from the parking lot to the group near the middle of the lake. A few bites, a few graphed fish, but nothing big. I hope to get out on clearwater this weekend. I don't plan on driving out for quite a while yet. With the numerous freeze/thaw's, I just don't trust the ice as much.

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Fished Maple Lake yesterday and got into the crappies again. there was a three hour window where they were just stacked in the area I was fishing. Had a fun time and I can't wait to do a new years eve crappie and bluegill fry for my kids and my mother. think I might make this a new family yearly tradition from now on. Almost forgot where I was fishing the ice was 10 1/2" inches thick. there was a thin ice sign at the access but everywhere I drilled it was like 9 to 10 1/2 inches thick. lots of four wheelers and sled out there.

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On maple do you wait around till the big ones move in or move until you find the right school? First time out a couple wks ago all I found was small fish out of the 37 landing

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there is one area out there they tend to move into at around the same time each day. as for size most of what I caught was 9 to 10 inchers but that was what I was looking for size I wanted some to eat. earlier in the day I dropped the camera down to see the lay of the bottom and seen nothing but a lot of small perch hanging on the bottom. I did have a nice northern swim past the camera too.

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Cool I will sit out there for a while someday seeing as I dont work until the snow starts to melt.

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Found the crappies in the north east side deep holes today. Looked like 12 inches of ice and will probably make an inch tonight at this temp. I had the camera down and only saw crappies. Is there any good sunfish? Could you point me in the right direction?

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Crappies still hitting on maple?

  • 2 weeks later...
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Getting seems to have slowed a lil' since everyone's driving out now

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Tried for crappies early this morning around the town on maple. Only baitfish and small crappies showed up I left around 730

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