Was able to get out this afternoon for a while. Most of the lakes in the area are still covered or partially covered in ice. A few lakes are open as of this afternoon. Moens Chain, Thompson, Julia are open. At least these are the ones that I have seen. Lakes like Boom, George and Crescent were still ice covered. They are very black and pulling away from the shore and I suspect they will be clear in the next couple days, I was able to get out finally this afternoon, more so to check and make sure everything was working o nthe boat and so forth. We manages to catch a couple dozen crappies a in a couple hours. It sure felt good to get back in the boat after this long winter. Al of the crappies we caught were on slip bobbers and were still in the wintering holes. I suspect once the ice leaves we will have a mad dash of fish to the shallows. I will keep you posted as the conditions change.

Good Fishing,