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Anybody here around the bay fishing the inland lakes? What is the ice condition? I'd like to get out. I heard that last weekend there was someone out a couple hundred feet on the pond at Drummond. Any info will be appreciated.

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I have been out a few times now.. Ice conditions on MOST lakes are good to go for foot travel. And all lakes varied for ice conditions. Some had three to 4 inches, others were 4 to 5 inces. And with that, the bigger lakes were still a bit thin over the deeper water when I checked. Deeper water was 20FOW or more.

Be sure to use a spud and check as you go. Also, would be wise to fish with a friend. Definately is a weird year for ice up.

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Thanks for the reply.

I went out to the Delta area today. Saw some folks out on the Pike Lake Chain and on Bluebird. I did spud Delta Lake and there was 5 inches on it. There were tracks of others that had been there.

Jim

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Bass & Bellevue ice was sketchy today, anywhere from 2-6". Some of the 2" was very soft, I made sure to avoid it. Fishing sucked. Drilled 70+ holes this morning and did not mark a single fish. Did some spudding on Buskey bay and it looked pretty solid, didn't have enough time to fish it though.

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Bellevue does have some good Pumpkinseeds Cheffrey... 'Gills and Crappies I have caught in there have been pretty small, but the pumpkins were very nice...

Shoot me an e-mail and we can discuss some lakes if you want...

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