Ice time.

[fishingdad]

Is the snow/weight on the ice causing much for flooding once you get holes drilled?

[Foreverfish1]

We've been out on Vermilion the past few days from McKinley Park and have found anywhere between 6 and 9 inches. There were multiple wheelers out today pulling permanent shacks.

 

Absolutely no flooding problems for us. 

 

The fishing has been decent but they seem to shut off around 4 every evening. Is this normal? 

[redneckdan]

Did the loop of the neighborhood tonight. One pond had +11" of solid ice. Many lakes have 1.5" of ice, then a layer of water and 3-4" of ice. Some others had 5-7" of good ice. Seems to be anything that froze solid before the weekend of Dec 12th is in great shape. Anything that was open water that weekend is progressing nicely. Anything that was skimmed over that weekend is bad. One lake had +10" at shore, went out 100 yds and found slush on skim then water over less than 3". If you are traveling to this area to fish I highly recommend fishing with a local or taking things very slowly, drill lots of test holes, use a scout with a spud bar.

Edited December 29, 2015 by Cliff Wagenbach
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[Cliff Wagenbach]

11 hours ago, Foreverfish1 said:

We've been out on Vermilion the past few days from McKinley Park and have found anywhere between 6 and 9 inches. There were multiple wheelers out today pulling permanent shacks.

 

Absolutely no flooding problems for us. 

 

The fishing has been decent but they seem to shut off around 4 every evening. Is this normal? 

Vermilion usually does not have much of a night bite. But once in a while there can be the exception!

The water level right now is barely below the top of the ice. I fear that we may have a lot of flooding if we get any heavy snow.

Cliff

[RoosterMan]

Happy holidays everyone!  I have been reading the posts and I am curious specifically about Daisy bay and big bay if anyone has a ice report. Coming up tomorrow and hoping to run the sleds for a coupe of days. Just curious as to conditions If anyone has any input!  

Happy New Year!

[Cliff Wagenbach]

Roosterman,

Finding around 7' to 9" on Big bay where I have been fishing. Not sure about Daisy Bay, but probably about the same there.???

Cliff

[Ben48]

6.5"-8" of clear ice on Niles Bay today

[Cliff Wagenbach]

Good to hear that the rest of the lake is slowly getting safer!

Cliff

[splakeshaker]

Does anyone know how burntside is shaping up?  Trout opener is right around the corner. :)

[Mike Stark]

3 hours ago, splakeshaker said:

Does anyone know how burntside is shaping up?  Trout opener is right around the corner.

I checked off van vac this morning and found around 2.5" of ice just off shore.  Very little snow on the lake.

[splakeshaker]

Thanks Mike. 

[redneckdan]

Fished a small lake yesterday near biwabik. Lots of dink perch, one hammer handled loaded with naceus parasites. Some guys had plowed an ice road with four wheelers. Found 5-7" with 2" refrozen slush on top. Got off the road with spud bar and found spots with 2-3" of ice under snow and slush. Found many open holes that I assume are spring inflows. Moved around a bit, one hole started gushing water up as soon as the auger broke through. Got the heck out of there.

 

Lots of sketchy ice right now.

[Ben48]

Niles Bay has 8"-9" as of this evening 12/31 where I've drilled.