I picked Ma up in Centerville Monday morning and we drove to New Richland to visit a cousin. We came home thru Elsworth then down 63 to WI 35 and took it to Nelson, then home thru Wabasha and Plainview. I couldn’t believe the green, mostly winter wheat, that I saw along the route. We saw some people on ice off the dike road but then there’s always plenty of people who push it when the ice should probably be void of people. The river was wide open as far upstream as I could see so I’ll assume the water is open up to La Cupolis at least. Pockets of current in the backwaters were wide open. There were two portables on open ice I think out of Frontenac, well out into the channel. Just those two, nobody that I could make out near shore.
The grandson and a few buddies were in N. Dakota last week perching and did not too bad. There’s ice to be fished, but I think people need to be pretty careful.