Kab - Ice?

[jostend]

Any ice on the big lake yet? We usually fish around Duck bay, any info around this area would be helpful.

Thanks;

[guts]

Well as of today, no ice. Cold weather forecast, but no below zeros in the future. The cold nights have formed ice in the shallows but the wind and sun take it back out. It does look like ice could form in the next couple days, hope the winds lay down. Its not lookin to good for opener right now, but things could change. guts

[jostend]

Thanks guts, wish you had better news! Keep me posted over the next few days as we had planned on coming up on Monday night. Looks like we might have to wait until the end of the week!

Do you spear out there much? We usually park at Red Pine and drive out with 4-wheelers around the back side of the bays. Most years we are the first people out in the 2nd bay. Can't wait for the ice to form!

[guts]

Josten, beieve it or not, I have not speared for many, many years, I was a very avid spear fisherman when I lived on Minnetonka. I use to set my house up on the lower lake, not far out of Tonka Bay. Like I said lots of years ago when it was legal. Today started out at 25 degrees aqnd proceeded to 34 degrees. We actually lost more shoreline ice. Forecast isn't lookin good. I'll catch ya later with more news. guts

[jostend]

Thanks again. I think we might come up Thursday for sure, and hopefully get out, but if things don't go well, might have to try a smaller lake. Any recomendations on lakes that might have some big pike? Are there any other lakes in the region that have tulibees(not sure of the spelling)? Looks like it is supposed to get really cold Wednesday and Thursday, just hope the winds aren't too bad.

[guts]

Josten,

Yesterday we again got up to 35 and overnight low was 23, what a bummer. It is surpose to get cold on Wed but we will have NW winds to contend with. As of now Red Pine hopes to put houses out on Friday, but thats real iffy.

Today is going to be sunny and near 40, so we got lots of ground to make up.

There might be an opportunity to put a house on a smaller lake, but you must be careful cause several are listed as trophy pike lakes with slot size restrictions.

All the border lakes including Kab have tullibees,or eelpout plus whitefish all the names kind of run together.

I'll post again as the ice situation changes. guts

[jostend]

We had our houses out on Wednesday afternoon in Duck bay. Saw a lot of little fish, but nothing more than 6-8 pounds. Friday we got out to Irwin, but we never had much luck. With the weather changing daily like it did this past week, it pretty much shut down everything. Saturday was sure a spooky ride out by 4-wheeler with all the water on the ice! Overall, poor fishing, but a good trip as always!