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You’ll find a few walleyes early and late each day on Clearwater Lake, Sugar Lake, and Pleasant Lake at 18-25 ft. by using fathead or shiner minnows and dead sticks. On Granite, Clearwater, Pleasant, and Maple Lakes, using sucker minnows at 12-15 ft. are the ticket for catching pike. Anglers are...
Some of the area lakes have 10-14 inches of ice and a few people have started driving out on them, or you can use ATVs everywhere. Anglers are having success catching northern pike at 10-14 ft. using sucker minnows on most lakes. Sunfish and crappies are abundant between 10-20 ft. on Pleasant Lake...
Ice depths vary from 8 to 12 inches on most of the area lakes. The use of ATVs remains the best travel option at this point. Sunfish and crappies can be located at 9-15 ft. on Indian, Maple, Pleasant, Clearwater, Granite and Rock Lakes. Fish Clearwater, Granite, Pleasant, Sugar, and Lake Francis,...
Area lakes have 2 to 6 inches of ice and anglers have started walking out on most of them. To catch a few sunfish and crappies, try Lake John and Sugar Lake at a depth of 10-15 ft. On Cedar Lake, Clearwater Lake, and Pleasant Lake, fish near the weed edges at 14-20 ft. during the evening hours for...
Ice depths vary from 2 to 4 inches on the area capped lakes. There hasn’t been a lot of fishing activity, but if you’re looking for panfish, anglers have been venturing out on Lake Francis, French Lake, Little Maple Lake, and parts of Clearwater Lake, but they have not had much success. Little Jim'...
It’s going to take a string of cold, calm days before anglers can start walking out on the lakes in this area. Monday had some strong winds and much of the ice that had taken hold on many small lakes disappeared, and the bigger bodies of water have mostly reopened. As of Tuesday morning, ice on the...
There wasn’t enough ice anywhere to support foot travel as of Tuesday morning, and even though ice does form overnight on most lakes, it typically melts away during the day. Some of the ice in the bays and other areas on certain lakes has remained over the past week, but it seems to come and go....
It hasn’t stayed cold enough for the ice to remain intact or thicken from one day to the next, so you could still get a boat in on most lakes as of Tuesday morning. Ponds are now skimmed with ice, and on several lakes the ice has developed in some bays and on shorelines. Little Jim's Bait (320) 274...
The open water fishing season has come to an end for most people, as the colder weather and ice is starting to take hold along some shorelines and bays. On bigger bodies of water where some pond ice is starting to form, ducks have been abundant. During the second weekend of the deer gun season,...
Walleyes are still being caught with minnows in 10-20 ft. on Big Swan and Clearwater. Overall reports for the deer hunting opener have been mostly favorable, and many groups had success filling their management tags, as well as taking some bucks. Hunters reported seeing plenty of deer during the...

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