presque isle bay

Sommerhiem parking lot east side,Top pic Sommerhiem parking west side

 
misery bay east parking lot

hauling heavy out of sommerhiem, headed to the yacht club

horse shoe pond

Dan,
I tried to get off at Niagara but couldn't Stink hole was thin too I did get on the ice at Leo's old boat livery and made my way out to the center of the bay about even with the west end of the yacht club, ice is better away from shore the center was 4-5inches.

Dan,
It's the dirt road just before stink hole, has a little wooden bird watchers platform on the left side. Leo use to rent boats off that point back when.

Thanks, Andy! I know where you are talking about. As always great reports! Keep'em coming! I'll be out there somewhere on sunday morning.
 
Dan

if you look at the forecast it looks like the ice wont last...

Chauncy,
CP-13 is a 16 year old man that's spent 45 years on the water and knows plenty  but We know more. Ice will get loose on the shore but will still be fish able once you get on.
 
Andy

Yea we fished 6' to 14' of water in the head of the bay yesterday to, we went off 3rd parking lot , not to much action on the perch saw quite a few small gills caught in the 6' water. Talked to 1 guy who tried out of Chestnut launch he said it was slow also & the ice was only about 3" or so what ever that means. Maybe by this weekend. Good Luck be safe    By the way I didn't mention I didn't see any ice much over 4" any where on the bay & that was actually measured.

gman Very possible you did better on Monday than Sunday (what every better is), yep perch are being caught at the right time on the right day in the right place no doubt about it that's normal fishing but Tuesday seamed pretty slow for most that I talked to. I guess pretty slow is vague also slow could be only 1 keeper out of 20 caught it could be not getting a limit what ever. But glad you did better Monday. By the way Sunday was better than Tuesday for me.     

Went there today it is open water from the head of the bay past the yacht club. Misery had some open water on it where the lagoon comes in.

La Boeuf (spell) had ice still and Sugar Lake had 3-4 a little soft at the edges but solid ice once you got out.

Did you guys actually get that much rain?  What we got down here actually helped the ice.

I didn't check it.

Started at misery bay early this morning along with 20 other anglers, the bite was slow picked up and slid by horse shoe pond a couple anglers coming off and about 15 or so heading on, the same report the bite was slow. checked the ice out of marina lake punched a couple holes fished for 1 hr. action slow. The ice was good and hard the best since it froze up. NO ice to speak of from the head to the channel at the marina, the high water and winds pushed all the ice east, all that is left in the head is skim ice from the last 2 nights.

Chauncy,
No ice from the first parking lot to the west pier at the marina, We had a storm surge of four and a half feet! the water cam up 4-1/2ft between 6:00 to 8:00 am Yesterday the 50 mile a hour winds did the rest.The ice in the back bay's is holding and is good. Fished Marina lake today some pressure cracks. We did spud out off the West pier, out in to the bay the ice is good were the wind did not get to it.
 
Andy

6:oo at times a line to get in forms when the park Ranger has a second cup of coffee, before he or she opens the gate.