Ice road on Sabaskong

[Hambone42]

Has anyone been on the ice road out of the Nestor Falls area? Can we get to Hay using trucks, or do we need sleds? How far does the road go? We will be heading up friday the 12th.

[Bobber@theCampfire]

We sledded to hay on Saturday from Morson.
Everyone that came from the east were on sleds also. We ran into a fair amount of slush, but we were able to keep our speed up and get back on top of the snow. If you have sleds take them along. Good luck.

[Daryl]

Hambone & Bobber
So how was fishing (or catching?)

[Hambone42]

Fishing was just spotty.
Got a few by Hay on Friday, after we got our truck unstuck.(2 hours)
DO NOT DRIVE ON THE ICE!
We had a little better success in the Cyclone Point area on Sat despite blizzard conditions all morning.
Almost had a limit, but they seemed smaller this year than prevoius years.
Gordie's ice road is closed. You need sleds.

[Big Johnson]

Just drove back from Nestor Falls yesterday, fished four days. There is no ice road, went out with sleds. The motel let us park in their lot[real nice of them,had a few beers there to show appreciation], then went past Meline's and caught the trail to the bay. There were places we came off one evening that would be impassable with water and slush the next. We sent one sled ahead without a house behind to find a good trail, then pulled the houses and gear where we knew it was good snow. Never went more than a few miles past Cyclone, but the crappies were cooperative. Eight of us, we had 103 on Sunday. Monday was slow, Tuesday we went for pike on nearby lakes, Wednesday back to Sabaskong where the crappies bit all day, had to count carefully to stay legal. They are smaller this year, biggest was only 13", with several 12". Seems like the most common were 10 1/2" to 11", but real solid fish. Threw back more 8-9" than we could keep track of, bodes well for the next few years.
Definitely worth the trip, but be careful and scout ahead. It snowed probably another 6-8" while we were there. But the trails are in fantastic condition for riding.

[Gissert]

We just spent three days fishing Skabaskong and Stevens Bay. Fishing was spotty, but our searching paid off. Thursday and Friday were very good for crappies, but they were in different spots. The fish seem to really be on the move toward spawning grounds. I had a 40 inch pike scraping her back under our holes yesterday afternoon. She swiped at a couple of crappies coming up, but would not bite anything else, except the one time she tried to eat my wife's transducer, LOL. You know the fish is big when it causes the water in your hole to gurgle when she passes by so close.

Conditions are such that sleds are the only way to go right now. Many slush fields, some quiet deep. Ons spot we fished for walleyes has 10 inches of snow with 10 inches of water under that.

We saw one truck attempt to get around a short ways off the landing, and it was soon up its frame rails when it broke through the snow/ice layer. That looked like no fun for sure.