went out on from launch on first wednesday and thursday, about 3-3.5 inches of good ice, my buddy caught a crappie, seen a little walleye through the ice, ice stated to get soft thursday i'll probably wait for a few cold days before i go out again

rellis....Welcome to the FM site! thanks for the report! Glad to have you aboard. FL Sniper

just stopped at first lake launch and there is a guy with a portable out about 300 yrds. [PoorWordUsage]! I have to work....then i'm going to try to sneak away from the girl friend and get out there too!!

thanks, this site is freakin awsome! it helps a bunch! im happy to return the favor.

Plenty of ice out from the willow point access. It's early pike time!

anyone notice if there is still the group of ducks and geese keeping an opened spot on the south west corner of 2nd? didn't notice the other day when i checked but wednesday and thursday there were hundreds of them

thinking about heading out this week, what are the ice reports on 1st lake? enough to drag a portable out?

what do you call 'plenty of ice' we went strait out from the willow point access and the ice was about 3 inches of busted refroze ice, looked solid after 150 yards still about 3 inches.

went out and to the right from first lake launch and 4.5 inch average

I was out on the SW corner of lake 2 yesterday. I was about a 100 yards out from the ice access and just to the south of the channel to lake 1. Didn't see any open areas. Ice thickness varied from 4 inches where we were fishing to 2 inches in the channel and further into lake 2.
Fishing was pretty slow for us. One flag with one nice pike that my buddy caught.

i went out on third today and there was almost 5 inches, after 50 yards out 4 inches and lots of noise!! there were big cracks that must of had water come thru, i started towrds one and heard and felt cracks so i'm going to stay off forest for a few days

Driving by 3rd today i saw that just before willow point access there were very long cracks that had water coming up.

Be very careful if you go out on 3. There are features out in the middle that cause it to freeze slower. Some years the middle stays open on 3 while 1 and 2 are locked up.

if you go of the willow pt. access stay away from in front of the lakehouse restaurant. not for sure how the ice froze because somebody busted thru the ice with a johnboat to hunt on the pt. last wed. the day before thanksgiving. heard them blasting away.

The south side of 1st froze over before the rest, so that's probably got about an inch more than the rest. Measured 4" 50yds out from shore today on the west side.