Holiday season saw lots of folks out on the ice enjoying the winter conditions. The colder nights have help freeze up some of the slushy areas on the ice, making travelling the lakes a bit easier. Tunkwa ice continues to grow thicker, and there's plenty of safe ice for quads and sleds now. Mixed reports coming in from guests ice fishing, with some doing very well, with some big fish being hooked, challenge is trying to land big trout through the holes. Best action continues to be really shallow, in as little as 2 feet of water! Shrimp in pink cures seem to be the best bait.
Day times have been sunny calm, and just beautiful up here at Tunkwa, a great time to give the ice fishing a try!

Wendy K. with here first ever, ice caught trout from Tunkwa!' Nice start and showing the guys how to do it!

Ice fishing continues to be quiet good. Trout are being caught at all depths, even a foot under the ice! Some good sized trout are being hooked but are proving to be a challenge to get up through the ice hole! Best bet continues to be cooked and cured shrimp, but worms have had there moments as well.
A couple of cold nights have helped build the ice, but Leighton continues to be very slushy and wet on top of the ice.

Daytime temps have been remaining above seasonable, it's quite nice out there! Ice thickness has remains about the same, at 6 - 7" of solid ice, with just a light skim of snow on it.
Fishing has been good once you find active fish, and figure out what they want. A quick afternoon fish this afternoon  showed lots of fish in slightly deeper water, often coming up to look at various baits, but just would not commit and bite. Without the Humminbird graph, one would have no idea so many fish were there!! A bit of experimenting with presentations, and a change to a smaller spoon, fished aggressively above a piece of pink cured shrimp on a flourescent jig made all the difference in the world, the trout were all over it!
Fresh trout for dinner!

Some cooler more seasonable weather up this way, is helping build the ice thickness. Ice is approx. 7" everywhere's we've checked. Leighton has about 5 -6 ". Ice fishing has been very good with trout being caught on a mixture of baits, but cured shrimp and fresh trout eggs being the best right now. It's a great time to get out and try ice fishing!

Ice off the point across from Tunkwa is approx. 6" thick. We are not sure about parts further out in the lake. This fish came from 6' feet down, over 10' of water, the old worm and bobber through the ice got 'em!