Willard ice?

[wiperhunter2]

Does anyone have the latest skinny on the ice at Willard?

Ira and I got out there today and and it was not good. We saw open water around the edges, so we decided to check out the depth off the South docks in the North marina, it was 3.5' and no fish were caught. After an hour we moved over to the channel and found 3" of ice and 6.6' of water. Got a few bites but again, no fish were caught. Decided to check out the South marina but did not try any fishing but I doubt the marina was any deeper than the North marina dock area. We did find out that the reason the channel was open is because they are dredging it. This is likely because they think if we don't get any more water this Winter, they would not to able to get enough water out of the lake for their water users. They did the same thing about 17 or 18 years ago, when the lake got lower than it did last year.