Northern Angler

Has anyone been out to any lakes yet? what are the ice conditions?

Been out to Spring Lake there is about 8" of ice, lots to walk on or sled or quad. Wouldn't drive out there for a bit though.Got skunked there only saw one fish that wasn't interested.

Swan lake had about 6" of ice, good hard ice too plenty of people out the fishing was decent and size was good.

Snipe you can get out on but the wind was howling and the +4 temp with no snow on the lake was a death trap so we didn't fish it.

what about sturgeon lake, how thick is the ice i'm off this weekend.

Hey Dave, I like where your head's at! I'm thinking of heading out there over the next couple days..............hopefully it will warm up a bit tho.....I was actually thinking swan or snipe. Interested?

Clark

I think people are fishing Sturgeon but not sure about the ice myself. I'm off to work in Australia Saturday so my fishing is done for a month or so.

Wow! Australia! Well, good luck while your down there! and if you happen to catcha few fish in between work days be sure to bring back some pics! see you in a month!

Clark

News years day on Swan in 12' of water with green grub eggs, 14 fish total 7 in the 4-5 lb range, was the best day this year, lol. Snipe tommorrow never iced there and hopefully can figure it out.

Well, I was at snipe last week and limited out on whitefish in no time. They were spawning which makes it pretty easy to catch them.

As for swan lake, it's on fire this year! That's why were holding our tournament there. Just to pass on some info regarding the tournament........If we get the response this year the way we did last year, we are going to have some really nice prizes. The more people registered for the tournament, the bigger the prizes!

My brother and I went  to Cummings and couldn't keep the perch off, only been out the once this year but it was a good trip.  Small perch though, and a real pain to clean!

Snipe lake is producing some really nice Whitefish. Wire worm with a maggot two to three feet under the ice.

Are the whitefish still spawning? They seemed to slow down a bit last week

Took my cousin and the kids, met up with joe and caught a bunch of perch at Cummings again.  Supposedly the last year their will be perch in the lake, sounds like they will all be killed off and turned back to a trout pond. 

was out at cummings last weekend with the kids and caught about a zillion perch. went to sturgeon today and caught  nothing. Finished the day off at swan and caught a couple decent size rainbows. That is too bad they are gonna kill off the perch at cummings that is great for the kids,

Met up with Joe again this time at Swan Lake.  Ive lived in GP my entire life and never made it there before....And I'll be going back!  Had a great time, the kids had fun and the weather actually cooperated.  Thanks to Delvin who I see is on here and Joe for some hot tips a couple non trout guys did not too bad.

That's good to hear! If you want huge trout then Swan is definatly the place to be. I must have missed you yesterday at the lake as I tried to make it around to everyone to say hello..........maybe next time!

We were straight out from that first entrance, left around 1:30 or so though.  Should be there again on Saturday!

anyone been out to joker lake by cadotte heard its killer for perch and some good size pike.

where is joker lake I have never even heard of it before?