Thanks for you input, BigWerm! I talked with the resort we are staying at (Cut Foot Sioux Resort) and they told me that they had a few groups stay there this weekend and got out on Little Cut Foot Sioux, Round Lake, and Big Cut Foot Sioux. They said conditions are getting better as the days go, but also told me that Lake Winnie is basically not being fished because of the snow/slush.

Anyone have a report on the Lake Winnie area? I am heading up from Wisconsin on Thursday with my dad for the weekend. We are going, so it is just a matter of how hard it will be to get out/move around. We will be bring a couple of snowmobiles to get around once we are at the lakes.

Thanks in advance!

My dad and I were supposed to head up to Lake Winnie on Thursday, but the resort we were supposed to stay at (Cut Foot Sioux Resort) called me last week and told me that the snow conditions are terrible. They had a group fish Round Lake the last weekend in February, but the group was only out for a few hours as the conditions were so bad (not too many fish, couldn’t move, snow up to their thighs). They called me to discuss the conditions and let me decide if we wanted to keep our reservations. I cancelled them after hearing that news, hearing the the resorts on Lake Winnie were not plowing roads as they couldn’t keep up with the fresh snow and drifting, hearing from a local bait shop that they are not even recommending snowmobiles (at peoples own risk), and the possible snow still to come. They were nice enough to say that since they have openings until the end of March that they would contact me in a week or two to discuss possibly coming up at the end of the month (if the snow pack melts down enough to get after it fishing.

If we decide to get out on Lake Winnie is there areas to watch out for? We live near Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin and I know that large lakes can get hard to navigate in the winter with pressure cracks, slush pockets, springs, etc.

I have a cabin book at Cutfoot Sioux Resort on Little Cutfoot Sioux as they had some of the best pricing on cabins. Also from the reviews, the owners (even though they are new) are very helpful and do what they can to make your stay the best it can be.

I saw a guy post somewhere showing that he took one of those cargo carriers that go into the hitch of your truck and fabricated up a bracket to mount to the back end of his snowmobile. I would figure you could buy the cargo carrier and make a bracket yourself for around what the shipping for the Johnson Storage one costs.