Lake Wilhelm ice report. 1/3/13

Checked the ice between the dam and boat launch one. The bare ice spots had 4 inches or a little more 30 yards out. I then decided to check the areas i the same place that had snow covering the ice and it was a little over 2 inches thick. Big difference. Be very careful if walking on the ice that is covered with snow. The park put out ice rescue gear.

Yes, thank you Sergeant Major! I can't wait to get some holes drilled!

Scottsgrafix,
Hey buddy dont kick Wilhelm to the curb. I like fishing Pyme alot but I have had some great days at Wilhelm. I was fishing Tuttle Point one day and caught maybe 10 nice crappie. it was really slow so I headed for home. I decided to check a spot on Wilhelm just because I had nothing going on at at home and I wasn't ready to quit fishing. I walked out on the ice down by boat launch 1 and drilled a hole. The vexlar lit up like a Christmas tree and I thought "Shad" so I moved about 25 yards and had nothing on the screen so I decided to give the hole that I thought was shad a try. I put on a forage minnow tiped with a minnie it was about 1 pm and before the lure got within 5 ft of the marks they started racing up to the lure and the fight was on I brought up a nice 12 in crappie.After that it was as fast as i could get it down I had another until I ran out of minnows and my son called. He asked me if I was fishing or catching. My reply was catching and I heard him tell my wife take me to dad now. Well I ran and got more minnows and we fished till dark and it never slowed down. We took 68 crappies off the ice between 10 and 15 inches. We put back countless crappies in the 9 and 10 inch range. I thought that was a fluke but I have done that several times after that at different spots.

About 7 years ago I had a banner day on Wilhelm, but since then all I can catch are dinks. There are plenty of those. Maybe I'm just not on them. I've heard lots of other folks say the same thing though. I'd love to see it come back.

My wife and I fished here today. Everything below launch 3 to the dam is very questionable. 2" or less not far from shore. Launch 3 had 3" out to about 50 yards and less after that. We caught a few perch and gills.

I really feel for you. I drove down. by the dam around 430 pm. I saw too shanties about half way out. My brother went to Kahle lake and got there late in the morning. He enjoys his friday nights. When i talked to him at about 4 pm he had about 25 nice blue gills and perch. He said he caught one nice crappie but all the guys in his group were doing good. He said the bite he heard was real good in the morning. He said waxies were the ticket with maggots next. Did not get to many bites on minnow. Better days i hope for you in the future. I still have not got on the ice yet but i will keep you posted on my trips to wilhelm