Predicted Ice Out?

[Meateater38]

A group of friends and I are planning a fishing / camping trip to the TFF in mid april and I just wanted to check and make sure the Ice would be out by then, what kind of weather to expect, and if this is a good month for the bronze backs, eye's, and muskie. One more question, the voluntary quiet canoe area, are you able to bring a 12' boat with a 5hp through their to an island or is this just setting yourself up for trouble? Ive camped here before and always canoed but now we have 5 people going and only 2 canoes. I'd rather take a canoe and the small boat just so we dont have to over load the canoes and not because were lazy. "I do not hunt to kill, but kill to have hunted."