Do you have any ice, Augie?? What's your current Water temp?
No ice right now. Air temps here bounced up and down all winter. We didn't have any sustained bitter cold. Three weeks of ice late Jan/early Feb was the longest period of coverage.
I busted about half-inch ice last Saturday morning so I could drop a minnow trap in but it was all melted by noon. Caught a couple hundred FHM and a dozen or three GSH that I transferred to a cage so I'm set for crappie fishing this weekend. Last two weeks there have been huge clouds of minnows cruising around in the shallow water near the bank. I've had the urge a few times to toss a line just to see if anybody's hungry, but so far have been able to resist.
Water temp this afternoon was 41.7F from the top down to ~4' off the deep end of the dock. I bought the parts to install shallow air around the dock but never got it done. I haven't started the deep air yet. Thinking it's still a couple or three weeks early to do that.
