Fishing report 20 December 2024
Good evening from the Quiet Lakes, hockey tomorrow so going to get you the report early! We did not end up with nearly as much snow as originally forecasted. I think we may have about 2-3″ on the ground here. I saw a few snowmobile tracks along the trail by our house and watched a guy go straight across the lake today while I was out ice fishing. I did hear a group of people staked Lost Land Lake for the snowmobile trail which is a good sign, however I do not believe we got enough snow to get the groomers out and the trails have to be thin for anyone looking to ride right now. I have also heard that most lakes are safe right now, Moose Lake has 10 inches of ice and most of the Chippewa Flowage is around 8″. A big warm up looks to happen next week with multiple days in the upper 30s and some forecasted rain for next Friday…..ugh……
On a better note, all of the ice we checked today was between 6-8″ of solid black ice and the lakes were making some noise the entire time we were out there. At the current temp of -1 that can only mean we were making more ice as the high today never got out of the teens! We found a whole bunch of perch schooled up in 15 FOW although they were all small. Still fun to catch and mostly on a small tungsten jig and soft plastic. We were fortunate enough to get a decent pike and a few smaller walleye on tip ups rigged with sucker minnows in anywhere from 12-20 FOW close to shallow water with weeds. We did not find any crappie although I have heard some anglers doing well for them on the Chip and on lakes with a little bit deeper basins. Look for those fish in 15-25 FOW and use jigs and plastics or minnows.
That is all I have for this week’s report. Pretty easy fishing right now as fish seem to be where anglers should expect them and they seem to be biting at that twilight/dusk time when you would expect as well. Have a great weekend and we will talk soon!
Greg