hunting
Pleasant, Clearwater, Lake Francis, Cedar Lake, and Granite Lake are popular area lakes for catching northern pike, try using sucker minnows at 12-14 ft. Lake John and Pleasant Lake are active with crappies and sunfish at 12-15 ft., and on Clearwater and Sugar Lakes during the evening hours,...
Anglers are finding it has been too cold to get out on the area lakes and chase sunfish, but with the weather improving, try lakes such as Sylvia, Francis, Indian, Granite, and Marie at the 12-15 ft. range. Crappies, on Indian, Rock, Union, Francis, and Little Maple Lake, are still being found...
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.
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