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We have 6-8in of good ice topped in some areas with frozen slush other areas are still unfrozen slush making foot travel tough and four-wheeler/snowmobile travel very messy. We don't recommend car or trucks on the ice quite yet, still a lot of thin spots on our area lakes. Current warm weather trend will make a mess of the ice surface but in the long run will benefit ice conditions overall. Snow cover will melt down and refreeze into a good surface with the next cold snap, which is predicted by the weekend.

Northern Pike hitting very good on shiners under tip-ups. Tip: Set your bait high, they "hunt" by looking up. In a weedy area this may mean setting your bait just under the ice, in an are with fewer weeds set your bait high off bottom, like 5-6ft off bottom.
Largemouth Bass are also hitting very good, the bonus being... You take them in the same manner as described above! Fish in large weed flat areas of 8-10ft depths or along edges of weeds where water depths drop off into deep water.

Be safe, good fishing, and HAPPY NEW YEAR from RFRG Outdoors!