The big lake out of Warroad was wide open the day after Thanksgiving when we had a good west wind for a day. It had been frozen over for a week as far as I could see but opened fast with the wind. It's now refrozen, and a few spear houses are showing up off the mouth of the Warroad River. It's normal for Whitefish Bay to be open much later than the rest of the lake. It's 216 ft deep and it takes a long time to cool the water down, same with Clearwater Bay. It's not uncommon to go to Whitefish and find 15" of ice when there's 30" on the big lake.

Ryan, I'll be down in Mid-February, don 't catch them all.

Doug Johnson