Petenwell Flowage

Thomas, what are the ice conditions you are seeing around the lake? 

Agrimm11, at the rate we're going, we might not even have ice in a few weeks. Ice conditions aside, Petenwell is probably not the best place to bring kids fishing for action. Might want to try another smaller body of water in the area. 

Yes had 3 new heaves on way back  Sunday  6am--11:00am  ice was definitely moving. 
5 guys 1 shorty
2 slots

Relatively new to the Portage area and headed up to Petenwell in a couple of weeks.  Any tips on where to fish?  Not after your secret spots, just generally productive areas to keep the kids interested. We went once last year and were skunked fishing bank drop-offs on the main river channel.  Thanks in advance!

Anybody doing any good jigging?  What lures?

Did good yesterday on tipups but couldn't get anything on a jig pole. 

Just a heads up for anyone going out from Wilderness. Ice was really moving today it's a minefield of heaves I really had to zig zag finding places to cross these heaves getting back in. Was on foot. There's plenty of ice but these heaves definitely have open water around them. 

Alaric walport, if you're asking about where your pin is at, that's about 8-10 inches. 

Whatare the ice conditions sence the 18th gonna make a trip and woundering if its worth it? 

First ice trip of the year for Team Walleye Guys Guide Service! Of cours, we were greated with a nice rising barometer. The windows where the fish were active were very short. We had a very short window early in the day and then another window later in the afternoon between 1:30 and 3:00. We missed a lot of flags today with only a few feet of line pulled out each time. Jigging and tipups were equal. We landed 6 short walleyes, 3 legals and 4 white bass. Lost another 18-19 inch legal in the hole on a jig rod. 26-30 fow. Things should pick up a little over the weekend and next week. 

My son went out today off the Lure. Channel was fine. 8 to 10"s. He went north of Channel and found open water or less that 1".

He said looks like the ice shifted and just opened in.

Better know what your doing out on the big lake early ice. Conditions change daily if not by the hour.