Minong and Yellow

[Lake Alice]

Looking for ice and fishing reports on these bodies of water. Anyone been out? I see Yellow was still open as of about a week ago. Coming up 12/30.

[prophet]

fished yellow 12\19 and 12\20,was out by ikes and the access

by the lodge,solid 4 inches of clear ice,fished the channell

near open water,fishing was slow,was -17 there last night at 8:00pm,making good ice now

[JJB]

I will be up at our place on the Minong Flowage this weekend and some other lakes down by Rice Lake.I will let you know. The family is saying it was -18 last night so ice is being made fast. Havent heard how fishing has been but will know by monday

[Lake Alice]

Hey thanks guys. I can't wait to get out.

[caster]

I will be on the Minong Flowage New Years weekend. Is there snow on the lakes? I want to use a snowmobile to pull the portable around. Thanks.

[mudman]

drove down to the jefferies landing on yellow yesterday and saw a bunch of guy driving out there plowing roads pulling out houses. Devils had 12 inches of ice as well. We went from no ice to late ice in a week!

[JJB]

Sorry I am just posting back now. Fished the flowage on sat and down by rice lake on sunday. There was about a foot of ice everywhere and people were driving on most lakes.The flowage didnt have much snow (maybe 3" in some spots and none in others)a sled would be able to pull but some more snow would be nice. Fishing was pretty good in both areas. We just had some tipups out on the flowage and got the normal hammerhandles and two perch about 9". No eyes but I'm sure there active.

We hammered the crappies down on a little private owned lake out east of rice lake thats not usually that good so the fish are hungry!!!!

[mudman]

Devils had a 12#er pulled out last weekend (so the guy at the bar said?)

[JJB]

Spent the weekend up on the minong flowage. I didnt bring the portable and should have even though it was cold!!!!!

Set out some tipups sunday and had 3 flags. Olny came up with one eye but it was 19 inches witch is pretty good size for the flowage. 24-26 inches of ice and olny about 4 inches of snow so driving would not be a problem at all.

[caster]

Heading to the cabin this weekend and would like to know if the Walleyes are still hitting on the Minong Flowage. Haven't been up yet this winter and wanted to know if we should try to leave early so we could catch the evening bite. Any info is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[JJB]

What part of the lake are you fishing??

We were in 8-9 fow just off the main river channel on the ne bay of the lake. Had to be right on the weed line where it goes 6-8 feet and seemed to do the trick.I olny had one day and it was 10-20 below zero out so using tipups was tough.I missed two because of freezing but they were hitting. I was using small shiners(3 inches).

Good luck!

[caster]

JJB, thanks for the report. We have a place on the NW end of the lake and haven't decided where to start yet. I know the run starts by the sawdust pile early on, but haven't had much luck after that.