Al,
I haven’t done any ice fishing there this year, but I own a cabin on Pete and have been fishing it during open water for 50 years. Best place for bait is Petenwell Sports Shop, corner of Bighorn and Z. Good bait and current reports. Good luck!

Seved 22 years in the acticve Army in the Field Artillery. Ft. Ord, CA for basic (1971); Ft Wainwright, AK; Fort Sill, OK (2 tours as a Drill Sergeant); Ft. Carson, CO; Grafenwoher, Germany; Giessen, Germany; Desert Shield / Desert Storm I, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia; Ft. Snelling, MN for my last tour; retired as a First Sergeant in 1995. Ah, the memories!

I have 3 of the Cabela’s European rods that I purchased while I was stationed in Europe. Used them for fishing pike and zander in Holland and Germany. They worked GREAT for that. I have used them for fishing catfish in the Wisconsin River and they work great for that also. I highly endorse these rods.