Cold weather good news for ice fishing

By Bill Bartusek, Columnist

Snow and cold air dominated this week’s forecast as we enter the first full week of December. For area anglers, the cold weather is good news. However, as of last Sunday, ice conditions locally were not favorable. Actually ice conditions had been better right after Thanksgiving when some angler got in a little early fishing.

Most lakes in our area have about 1/1/2 inches of ice and they are completely frozen over.