we didnt catch a thing at wilhelm lol

Might have been smelt. I saw some dead gizzard shad and just assumed, but very well could have been smelt. One way or the other, it was some kind of small baitfish.

went out from McArthur road today quite a walk to fish in about 19 to 23 ft of water, ice was good and hard about 4 or 5 inches. Caught 4 channel cats, 1 perch.1 crappie and my buddy caught one walleye and rolled another. Lot of work for that......
 
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Slammed the gills, perch, and a few crappie on Wilhelm this evening.  Stayed to about 10:30pm.  Between 2 of us over 50 fish through the ice in about 5 hrs of fishing!  Solid 6 to 7 inches as well on the main lake around launch #3.  Alot better then Pymie on Saturday fishing for 5 hrs without even a bite.

Had crummy ice out to the right off tuttle Saturday...was only 2.5" over the cribs I wanted to fish. Ended up sitting on 3.5" Ice was variable with the snow cover...seemed anywhere there was an inch more snow drifted up, there was and inch less ice....measured anywhere from 2.5"-4".
Lookers & no takers here too.

Well......Who thinks the ice will survive? Is it raining down that way? It was coming down pretty good up here in erie this morning already. I'm really hoping we don't lose it all..... :-[

we will probably break even by saturday looking at the weather, maybe up to 25% worse by then, long as we get a good enough refreeze wed-fri eve, sunday could be a safe plan.  i wouldn't plan a vacation until then lol.

I'm not even that optimistic. I'll be suprised if there is safe ice on there anytime this season. It was iffy on Saturday. After 3 days of warm rain, we might lose it all. It takes forever for it to get locked up and be fishable. I'm just getting really discouraged. I hope I'm wrong.

I guess I will have to stay home and fish my local lakes, they have between 7 to 8 inches and should still be good this Sat. This weather is BS

Smelt? Really?  The only places in PA that I know of that has smelt are Lake Erie and I think maybe Raystown Lake.  I even looked through a bunch of the PFBC biologist reports and none of them show any smelt that were captured. 
 
You sure they weren't spottail shiners(which kinda sorta might resemble a smelt to some people)?  Or golden shiners?