It’s always going to be busy being the first place to get on ice.
However, I think that with URL not icing up so early this year other places may be in-play within a closer timeframe. If URL isn’t walkable until the first week of December and we then maintain seasonable temps without major wind, the gap between fishable ice there and other places in the state won’t be so dramatic. In other years, there has been 3-4 weeks of fishing on URL before you could get on anywhere else besides tiny sheltered lakes. I think I could be standing on ice on Pool 4 backwater sloughs 2 weeks from this weekend…or only a week or so behind URL.