Monksville

[shrimpman steve]

Just drove by for a member who asked for a report. Haven't driven by in a couple of weeks so didn't know what I'd find. All open water is the answer.

[FASTEDDIE29]

Captain Shrimpy??? Admiral? No Ice? Not even a cube of Ice on the shallow side? This is a BUMMER!!!!!!!

[shrimpman steve]

I just checked the lower. I can drive by the upper over the weekend

[Rich196]

It's gonna get cold again next week fellas.... Might just be a good thing for you ice fisherman

[FASTEDDIE29]

Thanx Captain Shrimpy! Keep us posted!

Temps sure do look frigid after this weekend Rich! C'mon out and give it a shot!!!

[Mikeps326]

That's crazy how fast it melts, my cousin drove to Monksville yesterday and walked out about 3 to 4 feet out onto the lake and didn't want to walk out any more.

[briansnat]

Last Friday I was thinking of taking the boat out on Monks but changed my mind. Later that day I drove on the causeway at the north end and it was frozen as far as I could see in both directions. I congratulated myself for not wasting a trip with the boat.

Then I went past the south ramp and saw a boat being trailered out. So out of curiosity I went down to the ramp and the water was completely open and there were half a dozen empty trailers in the parking lot. I almost went home and got my boat but a quick calculation told me by the time I came back with it I'd only have a half hour of daylight left for fishing.

[yumasdad]

Originally Posted by briansnat

Last Friday I was thinking of taking the boat out on Monks but changed my mind. Later that day I drove on the causeway at the north end and it was frozen as far as I could see in both directions. I congratulated myself for not wasting a trip with the boat.

Then I went past the south ramp and saw a boat being trailered out. So out of curiosity I went down to the ramp and the water was completely open and there were half a dozen empty trailers in the parking lot. I almost went home and got my boat but a quick calculation told me by the time I came back with it I'd only have a half hour of daylight left for fishing.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sho uld have went, SKUNKY is not active until the sun goes down most of the time. Rarely do I fish during daylight hours unless going for MUSKY.

[Chrisper4694]

i've done ok in the afternoon for eyes there pre ice

[The Birdman]

I asked shrimpman about monksville last friday, thank again for the report.
I forgot to post back on this thread.

Went out saturday morning in search of big girls.
arrived at 8am, 2 other boats there.
at about 9-10 the brigade arrived, another 4-5 boats still not bad for skunks.

As for the fish we only had 1 musky follow up off the deep timber.

at 2pm we decided to go re-lauch at the upper ramp since we only had trolling motor. trailored up the boat, drive to upper launch....locked up smh!
ice was 2.5-3" and stretched down toward the power lines.

epic day at the ville. from what i saw on fb, some jigmasters caught walleye that day.