12/28 update

What a busy weekend! How wonderful.

Fishing seems to be a bit slower than last week, but I still had lots of good reports. One group was up for 24 hours and had 11 walleyes (5 keepers)--in their house, not a portable either! Another had 7 perch, others had 'a few' perch. Another told me a great story about having a huge muskie up to the hole but that its head was too big. Wow. It got tangled in his lines, so a minute or so after it got off the first time, he had it on again. This time it t-boned itself up against the hole and got off.

Ice reports are awesome. 15-18 all over. We have all houses--big and small--out to I. In other words, we are west of Hawkbill about halfway to Hennepin, and also have some roads directly west from our point. Kevin was out marking roads to Hennepin today, so we'll be working on them over the next few days. It's pretty likely that we'll drive there by New Years, but give us until Tuesday to call us so we can be sure.

For those of you who are used to talking to Jim in the office (my Dad), he'll be out for a week or two. He's having surgery on his leg tomorrow and will be there for about 3-4 days before heading home for recovery. So, you'll hear a few new voices: KD and Leslie in addition to Brooks and me.

Have a great (short) week! See you soon.

Karen McQuoid