Looks like the ice fishing season probably has at least one more weekend (Feb 25-27) left over at South Bass. Winds and warm weather / rain have broken up the Western Basin ice everywhere except west and north of South Bass and a few other island and nearshore areas. South Bass fishing has been reduced due to the weather, but they are still out there on 12 inches of ice. Last second hand report I got was the fishing wasn't that good that day, but that was middle of last week. Today they should be back at it and more people fishing. Every week now more walleye are coming into the area in preparation for the upcoming spawning season, so this week and next should see better success and more bigger fish caught.

The ice on the Lake will be there for some time, so the safe open water season (no flow ice) is still probably a month away. But we all know as soon as the launch ramps open up and boats can get out, there will be people out there starting to fish.