Drove out on plantan today in my heep, ice was good fishing slow 1 perch, at least 10″ of ice today, cant say about bemidji but should be similar, was on upper Red two days ago 14+” hard to imagine its not even officially winter yet

6 portables up on Garfield in laporte today, I walked out on plantan tonight about 100′ didn’t fall through didn’t auger a whole to check thickness yet

I’ve been using trilene 8 lb maxx love the stuff super strong but marketed more toward warmer weather applications I might break down and get some ice specific stuff but the trilene works well. I just get so p’d off when I miss a fish cuz of broken line that I don’t much like less than 8 lb for walldads hope I’m not missing out on bites under the sheet cuz of it.