Made it out yesterday (dec 19 2010) on a few of the area lakes(pillager,sylvin res and rock) to find and wheres from 6"- 16" of ice and many small sunnies and a limint of keeper crappies and 3 northers in the 3-5 pound range .. how the snow holds off but i dont see that happening any time soon( it's snowing as i am typeing this)..