March 26th, 2025

***Fishing Report***

Crappie - Crappie fishing continues to improve as we get closer to the best month for crappies, April. Generally speaking the evening bite continues to be the best bite, but reports of early morning bite picking up have been coming in. Anglers continue to find crappies in the traditional crappie holes, in 20-30 feet of water. Wax worms tipped on small tungsten jigs continue to be very popular, but crappie minnows under a bobber and soft plastics on jigs have been accounting for their fair share of crappies too. 

Lake trout - Forecasted snow storm kept many lake trout anglers away last weekend. The few reports we got were of good trout fishing. Humps and mud flats seemed to be the areas anglers found active lakers. Blade baits continue to shine as well as minnows under a tip up. Key depths continue to be 25-40 feet of water.

Stream Trout - Splake and rainbow trout continue to be popular targets for stream trout anglers. Splake are being found very tight to shore now in 5 feet of water and less. Small jigging spoons tipped with waxies or dead minnow have been very effective here. Rainbows have been a very different story. Anglers continue to find active rainbows out over 30-70 feet of water, but 5-10 feet under the ice. Small jigs tipped with waxies worms have been very effective here. 

***Ice Conditions***

Little to no changes happened to the ice this last week. Trout lakes continue to have between 24-26” of ice while the panfish lakes have between 30-37” of ice. Areas to watch out for are current areas and popular accesses. A few of the more popular accesses with lots of vehicle traffic have started to rot from salt and sand tracked onto the ice.