Nearby waters include Lake Lauderdale – off Route 22, in Cambridge – where Washington County maintains a park. The lake has largemouth and smallmouth bass as well as perch and pickerel.
Following a generally mild winter, some anglers are getting an early start thanks to warmer water temps for this time of year.
If you want to fish through the ice this weekend, you’ll likely have to travel north, where there was still 30 inches of ice, as of March 28, in most Iron, Price, Oneida, Forest and Vilas county lakes.
It has been locally touted as the best panfish lake and Polk County.
Several reports of nice largemouths – and even some hybrid striped bass – being pulled out of the Will County cooling lake were made throughout the month of March.
Largemouth bass get spring bite off to hot start.
Ice all but gone. Bite fair to good for a number of species.
The river walleye runs continue to go strong on the Lake Erie tributaries while the reef jig bite remains slow for the time being.
Fishing is between the seasons. In southern Michigan, waters are mostly open and panfish are biting. And there are steelhead to be had in a number of places. U.P. still seeing winter and ice fishing.