Current Northern Minnesota Walleye, Panfish, Pike and Perch Fishing Report. Serving The Lake Winnibigoshish, Bowstring, plus Surrounding Deer River, Grand Rapids and Itasca Lakes Region.
The past week delivered a bit of a setback for ice fishing enthusiasts by dishing out some brutally nice days. Sunny and calm with daytime temperatures in the high 40 to low 50 degree range doesn't exactly put the ice maker into high gear. In spite of the nice weather though, there are still several smaller lakes with a nice clear layer of skim ice and as of Sunday 11/26 a handful of the larger area lakes are skimmed over with some fairly good looking ice as well. As usual, the deeper lakes and lakes with lots of wind exposure are still open except some ice around the edges.
We checked the public landing at Jessie Lake on Saturday and found the lake frozen across most of its surface, but when we stepped out a few feet from shore the thin ice cracked and broke easily. The good news is that daytime temperatures just barely topped 30 degrees so ice will be forming steadily all night long. Every day without snow is a bonus now and with a few cold nights and barring any heavy rain or snow this week, it looks like we'll have a decent base of ice to work with. The forecast of falling temperatures and light precipitation ought to play right into the plan and those of you that are anxious to get into the Pike spearing season next week should have a least a few good spots to choose from.
