Never been to Coal Lake but am interested since it is close. Is it deep enough to put a 20' Bayliner on or is that too much boat for it?

Thinking about going today. Is the ice good still. Gonna be using my quad. Any trails in the area?

Ice Report: 39 in

Had pretty good luck here so far, got a 32" pike on the 20th mid lake. Been there 3 times after and nothing.

Ice Report: 20 in
About mid lake. Had two truck out there.

Fished sunrise to 4pm. Two small pike. Had a camera going and saw nothing all day. 6' to about 14'. Not much going on down there.

Hi, does anyone catch Perch in this Lake?

Went with the family from 10-2 today. Nice thick ice caught fat pikes 3-4 lbs. Nice warm day! Good times!

Ice Report: 17 in

10 small pike in three hours. About 17” ice.
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How's the fishing here? Anyone catching?

Ice Report: 15 in
From north launch to first bend On with my truck. Good solid ice

Thanks for your reply duckhunter33 and Riverbear! I try not to drive on the icy lake. If the ice is very thick, I'll drive on it. Merry Christmas to everybody!

Ram traffic starts. Lol. Btw if you are really nervous. Open your doors too. If the front goes in (god forbid) the doors should hopefully catch better ice.

Seatbelts off, windows down. Should be good to drive on with this cold snap we have had all week.

I was always scared to drive on an icy lake. What are safety points for driving on icy lakes?

Anyone know what the road condition is like leading down to coal lake ?

Fished on the North end on both Friday and Saturday... Ice thickness is between 11-12 inches.. People are driving on.. Cars, SUV's, Mini Vans and Trucks..

@duckhunter...was fishing there 2 weeks ago and there was 8" on the north end, drove by last weekend and saw a 1/4 ton pickup on it

Anyone driving out on the lake yet?

Out for couple hours today 9" of ice lots of movement and frozen overflow at south end 200 feet out from boat launch

Ice Report: 11 in
Good solid ice all over the lake

4" at North end (off 616) of lake at boat launch and East shore.

Great Lake normally catch around 15-20 each in like 4-5 hours! Go check out my YouTube channel FPF FISHING to see the secrets

Went fishing for 2h caught 3 pike not one that I could take home. Still fun!

At 7:30-8:30 I caught 4 pike, no keepers but I had tons of fun. I was using a yellow and red 5 of diamonds, size 8

7:30-8:30 I caught 4 pike. No keepers but I had lots of fun. Was using a Len Thompson yellow and red 5 of diamonds

landed 5 in all..nothing bigger then 55cm ..catch and release all....5diamonds seem to be the hot ticket here..devil,s work good aswell.

Caught 9 catch and release pike 40 t0 55 cm long. Lots of nibbles 11:00 am to 3:00 pm North End. Good approach 20" of ice. Mar. 16/17

Is there good perch fishing ?

Ice so thick on Sunday just barely got the auger thought. Motor almost touched the ice.

Ice Report: 3 ft

Heard there are big suckers in here. Anyone ever catch any, and if so what set up?

Planning to head out next weekend. Has anyone caught or seen any Burbot?

Caught 5 small pike in about 3hrs. Good day beats work! Lots of ice! Never measured but I have to kick away the snow so my auger is long enough

Caught a few nice jack here
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Ice Report: 31 in
Near south boat launch

Out there today in the afternoon around 2pm. Caught 3 pike, one of which was 60 cm. Wish people were smart to check their regs & throw the pike back in the water that are UNDER 63 com. Poachers.......

11 feet with Minnow tipped buck tail and smelt on Treble hook. No bites. Camera and sonar had no hits Fished for few hours in PM.

Ice Report: 30 in

Anyone catching here? I'm wanting to take my son to catch some jacks. Any info would be appreciated.

I have major success with an orange 1/2 ounce or 3/8 jig head and a white rubber worm with a flat tail. Not sure what they are called. But regardless they seem to hammer it every time.

Try smelts on a leader/treble hook. 6-12 ft of water. I recently started trying frozen anchovies. The pike are fatter than last winter so I'm using bigger bait.

Can I ask what everyone is using for bait? I have been there a few times and I have fish on the flasher but can't get them to bite. Any help would be great. I have used jigs, jig spoon and rotating power minnow with maggots

Ice Report: 21 in
20-21" south boat launch

21" of ice and landed about 30 pike 22-24" between 2 guys.
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If you are over weeds you will probably catch,otherwise you are pretty much out of luck from what I've seen

Ice Report: 19 in
19 to 20 inches on south end

Looking to see if anyone have been catching, we went on the 23rd as well and got nothing.