Lyback’s Ice Fishing

Overnight it dipped below freezing briefly and today it’s in the mid thirty’s and some off and on rain showers.  Are access will remained closed until Tuesday. I walked out to the clear ice seen in the pictures yesterday to check it.  The way out to...

I spent all day yesterday on the ice pulling the ice drag behind the Honda ATV establishing what will end up being our roads through the roughest ice to Pope’s Reef Gull Reef Spider-Island and the NE side of North Twin Island. Using the bigger drag...

Today we went out on the ice after the wind dropped and checked ice depths. After the first hundred yards it went from 7″-8″ in rough ice to anywhere between 4″-6″ depending on drilling with clear ice and dishpan ice.  We traveled west of Spider nor...

Overnight the ice went out a little farther and the waves in the open water beyond are definitely “slowing” up as it’s getting closer to freezing. The wind is supposed to keep blowing overnight so it will keep progressing slowly. The weather forecas...

I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!   We are having ours today at the Red House on the lake. Besides Thanksgiving it’s my Dad’s Birthday.  It’s been forty years since he passed but always will be remembered. The lake its starting to freeze and...