I went for a drive around the neighborhood Friday afternoon about 3 o'clock, this is what I found:

Rice Lake in Brainerd is 100% ice covered with 1-2 inches.
North Long Lake Merrifield Bay is about 20% ice covered.
North Long 371 Bay is 100% ice covered, no activity on it.
Lake Edward is 100% covered, and making some good ice.
Pelican Lake, south side is about 10% ice, lots of diver ducks.
Lake Hubert is about 5% ice covered.
Gull Lake Hole in the Day Bay is wide open.
Round Lake is 90-95% ice covered.

Last year December 1, we were on Edward, looking to be our first lake this year again. If anyone was out and about and has other reports of lakes, maybe in the Cross/Whitefish area, please post, thank you.

Thanks for the update,,, do we owe you any gas money?

Haha, na its good, actually I saw gas down to 1.67, getting close to where I want it.

Today I saw that Greens was frozen. Dont know if I would make the walk from Maddens yet. I did walk out on Upper Mission chopping holes with an axe as I went and found four inches by shore. Once I got out about fifty yards I made one swing with the axe and ran for shore. It was hard to tell if the whole lake was frozen. I did not make it down to the lake until almost dark and it was dead calm so I could not tell if I was seeing calm, open water or ice in the middle of the lake.

thanks for the update! Has anyone been around the Lincoln Lakes area?? >Fish Trap or Alex

I walked out on a small Brd area lake today in a bay and found 6 inches.

haha. I wonder what lake that was

heard from an EMT friend that someone went through on Pelican this afternoon.

I heard the same thing smartguy. . .

i went icefishing out on brockway over by Pine River and caught a limit of crappies. there was 4 to 5 inches of ice

My bad. Turns out it was Lougee and it sounds like both guys are okay.

It's amazing how fast this happens, my buddy was on Gull last Sundsay and now we are talking ice. Gotta love it.

Someone looked out their window and seen 2 people walking on the ice,10 minutes later he/she looked out their window and didn't see anyone and called 911.Planes were sent out from the Aitkin /Mil Lacs area and a hovercraft was sent for.Breezy point ,Cross Lake ,Pequot lakes,Nisswa and county sheriff all raced to the Lougee lake access and could see no broken ice through the binoculars

ya, theres ice on the bays, should be some people out this weekend im guessin. Was down near little sauk lake, people were walkin across the lake. The little sauk river runs thru it, wow

We hunted yesterday in SW MN and all the sloughs were frozen tight. I was still a little cautious with the dog and shooting at any that flew out over the frozen slough.

Be carful out there. No fish is worth it!