fished blackdeer channel sat. lots of shad swimming around its another place where you can see down and watch the fish very easy if your in a shake. In fact there was so many shad they are auctually keeping some spots open and not letting it freeze. But any way the fishing was not bad catching fish constantly and ended up keeping a limit. there is about 2 inches of ice because there is currrent flow on this channel off lake Onalaska ont he North West end.