Prediction - First Ice

[ndfinfan]

Fished Darling this afternoon...7 solid inches...no issues at all. Walleye turned on just before dark...as per usual. Winds died...beautiful evening.

 

[Allen Gamble]

Despite the warm temps last week i'm finding the ice is still growing. 6" of good ice everywhere i've been. Still not getting dialed into anything nice or consistent.

 

[ndfinfan]

Good news BRK...especially the roller coaster temps lookin like we get this week!

 

[Migrator Man]

Ice was good at Darling. The freezing overnight temps seem to be keeping the ice from melting any if not building.

 

[Allen Gamble]

Hit Davis WPA over the weekend and fished it pretty hard. Barely marked a fish. Not sure whats happened there but two years ago it was a go to lake to get my kids on some fish. Ice was 6-7".

Also hit Lake Holmes. It's pretty easy to find small perch there, in fact there's probably too many small perch in the there. Shockingly, the thickest i found the ice was 3.5".

 

[Fisherman25]

Hit Davis WPA over the weekend and fished it pretty hard. Barely marked a fish. Not sure whats happened there but two years ago it was a go to lake to get my kids on some fish. Ice was 6-7".

Also hit Lake Holmes. It's pretty easy to find small perch there, in fact there's probably too many small perch in the there. Shockingly, the thickest i found the ice was 3.5".

Two things about Homes. The ice is always slower to get thick there and I think it’s due to the salinity. Secondly, I’m not sure which area you were on, but they’ve finally started putting a good amount of water from the canal into Brekken and Homes.

 

[Allen Gamble]

Two things about Homes. The ice is always slower to get thick there and I think it’s due to the salinity. Secondly, I’m not sure which area you were on, but they’ve finally started putting a good amount of water from the canal into Brekken and Homes.

I didn't know they were putting canal water in there, but my goodness is it crazy how much lower the lake is again this year. I usually fish off the island tip, just to the SE of it or around the corner. Pulled some nice walleye from the lake a couple years ago, not much since then.

 

[Account Deleted]

My little stock dam had a solid 6” of clear ice in Morton County. The cows better get to it quick or the holes are gonna freeze back over.

 

[Fisherman25]

I didn't know they were putting canal water in there, but my goodness is it crazy how much lower the lake is again this year. I usually fish off the island tip, just to the SE of it or around the corner. Pulled some nice walleye from the lake a couple years ago, not much since then.

Yeah they use to control the water level but there was a paperwork/legality issue I was told, so those lakes hadn’t saw fresh water in several years. I was told that was all alleviated now and they will be bringing those lakes back to their normal level again. That should lower the salinity a bit too.

 

[Bowhunter_24]

Ive been picking up walleyes here and there. Here is my 3 year old with his first eye of the season

 

[ndfinfan]

^ Awesome Bow...the wife won't let me take the grandson out on the ice until we got a solid foot of ice. Probably have to wait to take him until closer to Christmas...;:;banghead

 

[Bowhunter_24]

^ Awesome Bow...the wife won't let me take the grandson out on the ice until we got a solid foot of ice. Probably have to wait to take him until closer to Christmas...;:;banghead

this was on 13"

 

[ndfinfan]

Wow...nice...must be way up north!

 

[Bacon]

Might want to hold off fishing Alkaline. Lots of open water. Was froze up but the wind must have opened it up.

 

[Allen Gamble]

Gave Coal Lake, by Underwood, a visit this morning. Found 4-6" of ice throughout and pretty clear for the most part. Pulled two walleye through the ice and two more got off at the hole. First one would have been a keeper, the rest were 10-13". Nothing spectacular, but always nice to catch some fish.

 

[ndfinfan]

^Nice BRK...hope the next 2 days won't wreck all the ice that's formed the last 2 weeks!

 

[Jm1986]

Went to Josephine yesterday. East end of the lake was 6-8 inches. No marks so I decided to hit up the west end. When I went to the boat ramp there’s 6 or 7 spots of open water right off the ramp. Be careful.

 

[zoops]

I'd be pretty careful in the I-94 corridor and south. Drove from Bismarck to Fargo yesterday; still several acres of open water on Cleveland slough and south Hobart. Next couple days are going to do some damage.

 

[ndfinfan]

^spot on Zoops...think we will be ok up here in the north-buddy fishing Darling this morning.

 

[Allen Gamble]

Ice has turned very sketch in my area. Going out anytime before the weekend for me will be off limits.