Louie, greetings from the jet motor raft musky guide pbbt:o) Lol. Long time no see. Married and have a 5 month old angler now. Going to ice fish North of Bemidji this weekend. Good pike and pearch bites per usual and walleye being found around swimming beaches. Wish me luck. Hope you had a Merry Christmas! See ya on the water sometime. -Ben

I hear there is some fishable open water at Fisherman’s Inn. I walked around Chester woods this afternoon and found nothing worthy for casting but did notice 2-3 foot patches of open water on some sections of shoreline. I’m off to Virgina for a wedding this week. I plan to sqeak in a day of deep wreck fishing off Hatteras with a good friend. Not the best time of year for action but I hope to hook a tuna and get the open water blues behind me.

The sooner it melts the sooner we will have new ice to explore in much less than a year. Enjoy the comming warmth of spring and hang in there. Die hard ice anglers like you make me proud to be from MN.