Ice fishing??

[Hookmaster]

Tonka Thursday afternoon. The earliest I’ve ever been out in a boat on that lake. Most of the lake still had ice so that’s why I’m putting this in the ice fishing thread. Didn’t find anything shallow. They were still where I caught them last October. Water temp was 41.2 in the bay and 42.4 in the shallow channel in the cattails. I think ice out will be Monday or Tuesday. Many would come up to the 1/16 oz jig but few would take it. Did best with a 4 mm tungsten jig.
Showing pics of the school on the Helix and the LiveScope to show the difference.
I was fishing the top of the school. None of the fish showed signs of barotrauma.

[Hookmaster]

Was on Tonka yesterday. Bays open that I saw were Stubbs, Maxwell, North Arm, Crystal, Smiths and LaFayette. Carmens was open from what I could see from county road 19. Browns was locked up which also stopped the water patrol on their ice out excursion.
I tried a few shallow channel areas and didn’t find any panfish in them yet. Saw ~5 hammer handles and a fungus covered carp that looked like a ghost and could go belly up at any moment. Panfish still deep and less cooperative than last Thursday. Only boated 1. I did mark some in 10-15 ft off some weeds but they wouldn’t bite either. Yard work today and I’ll give it another try tomorrow.

Tonka main bays were 44 up 3 degrees from last Thursday. Shallows varied between 45 and 47, up from 42 last Thursday.

[Hookmaster]

Drove around some of Minnetonka today. Most backwaters have froze over and some dock areas that have turned off aeration have also. A few rigs out.