Lake Vermillion

[Guest]

I talked to guy Tuesday night and he said the lake is pretty much open very little ice. Never thought I would say this but we need some good cold weather.

[Guest]

i was out there sunday and there was about 4-5 inches by the east side boat launch. has it gotten that bad already? i know there were a few spots that didn't look very good a little bit north of the boat launch. by the way, just one hammerhandle on sunday

[greebs]

I think he was pulling your leg. I was out on Sat. and there was 5 - 6 inches and several people out. I didn't see any open water. Although I was only out in the morning and Sat. afternoon and Sun were both nice, but can't imagine that by Tues. there was open water.

[Guest]

I think I need to check the lake out myself. I'll write in what I find. ck

[Guest]

heading out there in the am. will let you know how it is

[greebs]

I was out there this evening (Sat.) There was a fairly big area of open water near the channel leading to the spillway; including where I wanted to try to fish for some walleyes at dusk. So I resorted to plan B and fished in the deep water along the dam hoping to find some crappies. Marked a ton of them on the vexilar anywheres from the bottom up to about six feet off the bottom in 19 foot of water, but couldn't coax a single bite.

Ice was about 4-5 inches where I was at and there were a few others out in other parts of the lake but I didn't get to talk to anybody else to see if they did any better. There was a lot of tiny buglike creatures swimming in the water that I could see so I suppose the crappies may have been feeding on them and not hungry; who knows?

As you can imagine, there is no snow on the lake and it is very slick. Make sure you take your cleats along if you have them and also shack anchors if you have a lightweight shack. I have a no-name fish trap type of shack and with the wind, it started sliding a couple times. Guess with these more winterlike temps forecast, the ice should get good and thick again soon.