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Friday, December 16th, we are re-opening the ice access out of The Red Door to walking ONLY, for the coming weekend. The open water from yesterday is now skimmed over. The open area, out about as far as the in close mudlfats (East Flat,Weimer Flat, Bombeck Flat ,Resort Flat, Matton Flat and Myr Mar Flat...

***ICE UPDATE 12/16*** Our access remains closed. We had some open water on Thursday that is now glazed over but is probably still pretty thin. The wind yesterday did not help at all and the upcoming forcast of warm weather is a concern. We are not sending our guys out today to be cautious. There are a few...

Where are the reports from the bays and south end? How far can a guy get out, ice thickness, etc?

Looking at buying a portable generator for my ice house this year and was looking for some advice on what model to get. I know the Honda EU2000i is probably the best when it comes to how quiet they run and how long of run time you can get out of a tank of gas however they are also at the top of the price range....

December 12 will be the date that a meeting will take place between DNR, Tribal and Mille Lacs Fishery Input Group to discuss proposed slot changes for 2012. The tone of the meeting has already been set with the DNR fish sampling from the latest gillnet survey. http://www.millelacsmessenger.com/...

***Ice Update 12/14*** The warm weather and fog kept us off the ice today. We got a dusting of snow but luckily none of the rain that the cities got. The cracks and open areas should start to heal with the cold weather forcast. Our access remains closed at this time. Conditions are day to day and we will do o...

Cassie already posted this...but we were out today...we did make it to the boot...but did find pockets of open water. There is open water to the east of the boot and we found more open water towards fishers flat. Everything is black ice and if there was no wind today we might not have seen the waves. Wh...

I arived at J.R.s Resort at 6am Friday morning to be greated by -18 and windy,drove the wheeler out about a half mile, found 9 inches of ice,set up in 8 ft of water,fishing was good in the mornings and evenings pretty slow during mid day,caught our limit plus a 41 inch northern,boy what a fight took a few pi...

Everybody is wondering this year when they're gonna get out on the ice...............When does ice freeze together?Ice is always exposed to a certain amount of air humidity and always emits moisture by melting. When this moisture re-freezes, the ice sticks together. The colder the ice is, the ea...

***ICE UPDATE*** Our lake crews have been out on the ice the last couple of days staking and testing the ice. The ice is changing daily. Currently there is approx. 7 inches of ice in most place with some areas of concern... The flats have several open water areas from the boot and areas beyond to the north...

What fishing or fishing related apps are out there for smart phones. I have Fox 9's weather app on mine and North American Fishing knots app as well.

Just a quick update of what we have found so far. Ice thickness varies as it always does this time of year. Some really good black ice with 6-7" and some areas that are less...and some cracks we are dealing with right now. We are working on getting stakes out to the boot and the jug...you can imagi...

Just wanted to let everyone know that Don Hoemberg has passed away. You would like to send our thoughts and prayers to his wife Ann and their family. Don was a wonderful man and will be greatly missed.Services Mass of Christian Burial at The Church of the Epiphany (1900 – 111th Ave. NW, Coon Rapids) Mond...

We placed the order yesterday for our new web cam at The Red Door Resort! So all you folks will have a view from the shores on the northend of the lake... I plan to have it on line in time for this coming ice fishing season! stay tuned! more news to come later!

Sunday, December 11th, 10 am., we have a solid 6.5 inches of ice in all the places we checked. With that ice thickness, normally we would not hesitate in opening the access to ATV travel and the like with that much ice. But as we mentioned in previous reports, the snow free ice is very prone to temperature...