I noticed on my way to Alma this morning that the duck and deer hunters using boats had to do some crunching as ice was covering quite a bit of the backwaters on the downstream side of the dike road. On the upstream side ice was present where there was no indication of current. Much of Big Lake was covered as were the puddles on the Sconnie side of the tracks.
Alma, by the way, was pretty productive for us. Walleyes to 20″, lots in the 14-14 1/2 inch range and saugers aplenty. Blade baits, plastics and hair all got fish attention today and color wasn’t much of an issue…..as long as it had orange of some sort on it.