December 28th, 2021

***Ice Report***

Ice conditions continue to improve in the Ely area. 11-14” of good solid ice is being reported on the majority of Ely area lakes. With enough ice for trucks, plowed roads have quickly popped up and are expanding quickly.  For anglers that aren’t comfortable with driving on the ice yet or there is no plowed road to they favorite fishing spot yet, 4 wheelers, side by side and snowmobiles are all still being used to get around on area lakes. 

***Fishing Report***

Walleye - Walleye anglers continue to quality walleyes on area lakes. Numbers of fish caught, each outing, swings wildly for many anglers. One day you can catch well over a dozen, then the very next day get totally skunked. Gotta love winter walleye fishing! Best bite continues to be reported in 20 feet of water and during the evening hours. Jigging spoons, tipped with a minnow head and dead sticking a good lively shiner or rainbow, continue account for the majority of walleyes being caught. 

Pike - Big pike continue to come up the hole, weather your targeting them or not. Anglers targeting them continue to find the in shallow weedy bays and continue to catch them under a tip up with a live or dead medium suckers.  Main lake points near deep water also continues to produce fish. 

Panfish - Sunfish and crappie anglers have been finding both fish inside weedbeds and on weedlines. Recent snowfall will cause the weeds to start dying back and both fish will start moving out to deeper water. Wax worms and soft plastics, both tipped on small jigs have been very effective on both crappies and gills. Anglers have been focusing the majority of their time in 15 feet of water and less.