The portable fishermen that braved the wind and cold Friday and Saturday had pretty good action.  Most stayed in close because of the weather and advisement of our office.  Overnight Saturday the winds picked up a little more, but because we didn’t get the snow they had forecasted earlier there was minimal drifting and what was out there blew towards shore.

Tomorrow we will be going out and checking ice depths in the areas we have staked trails to and I’m hoping there is enough ice for me to go out with the Jeep and start establishing roads thru the rougher areas.  With the last 48-72 hours of temps we have had I’m expecting to see a couple more inches everywhere than before the weekend.  Prior to the weekend we had ice depths ranging from 6″ to as much as 10″ in some of the rougher areas.  Sounds like we have until next Sunday to make the ice as after that it’s supposed to warm up again…

Sorry there was no report Saturday as my daughter and I went to Albert Lea for a cousin of mines funeral.  (Roy Olson).  Many of our permanent customers knew him from all the years he came up and rode along with me on the lake on weekends, and had a house which his son and daughters still have here.  And by now most of you know that Richard Gadbois, (Dickie) died last Friday after his vehicle went down while going out to check ice. (FYI, it was not a truck like the news media mentioned, but a small mini 4×4 Tracker.) It’s been a couple sad days, but time to move on and get going.

I’ll update the report tomorrow when I get off the ice,

Eddy