01-04-2023, 12:11 AM
(01-03-2023, 01:27 PM)Troutster Wrote: Thanks for the report. My experience is that the area around the marina is only good for a short while. Last year at first ice we hand a great day in the marina area but fished it a few weeks later due to snow mobile problems and didn’t even catch 1. Were people on machines getting stuck on the ice with all of that slush? I’m going to try and get up there this coming Saturday. I hope the slush firms up. That can be miserable standing in that stuff.
I didn’t see or hear of any stuck machines, but I wonder if not many tried to venture out because of the conditions. I’m still fairly new to ice fishing and that was my first time at strawberry so any advice is well received. Once the marina area dies down are there still areas that are productive that you don’t need a machine to get to? I was thinking about trying out chicken creek or somewhere on that side of the reservoir this weekend.