Ice Fishing Reports

[West Basin]

There is a good size group off Catawba today, but looks like only out a half mile or less. West and north of South Bass continues to have a lot of fishing. Second hand report of some people out off Camp Perry. Weekend deep freeze again should improve conditions. Weekend looks good for access and ice. Now for some fishing catch reports...

[Lucky Duck]

Friend of mine and his son were out on East Harbor today. He fishes East Harbor most weekends in the summer as he loves panfish. He could not catch a fish today, and he said he talked to other fisherman around him today, and he did not see a fish caught!

[West Basin]

Ice cutters are out. You can see the track in the satellite photo. Confirmed on Marine Traffic website.

[West Basin]

As you would expect, nobody out off Catawba this morning. All the ice shanties have been pulled off the ice north and west of South Bass Island (there was one person out there this morning). We'll see what this coming storm, mostly the high N NNE winds, do to the ice. Then Friday Saturday bitter cold again and continued at night through Tuesady. No significant warmup forecast through next weekend, so hopefully the ice fishing will return.

[stanton21]

Looks like a large crack off catawba.
Snowmobiles riding back and forth.
Coastguard chopper is flying alone the crack.