Ice fishing reports: cold and windy

Conditions on Leelanau County lakes are firm and ready for ice fishing, but challenges remain due to a recent warm-up and an eventual cool-down.

The year 2024 will be remembered as a non-existing ice fishing season. With most lakes frozen over in 2025, fishermen have been flocking to several hot spots on the peninsula.

“I don’t know if I can speak for many guys, but it seems like for myself. I think ice fishing has been very slow. I’ve had a little bit of luck getting some bass, but other than that, I haven’t really got anything too respectable,” local ice fisherman Ryan Blessing said.