The fact that there are no buds budding on our hardwood trees and there's still a ton of snow on the forest floor, doesn't mean at all that Spring is not here. And it's time to get started making your fishing plans now.
Preparation is the key element to everything successfully accomplished.
For this time of the season it'll be the angler's main interest to find out what this Spring season will reveal. Many of our inland lakes are spring fed. These spring fed lakes will reveal very early in the season where high oxygenated water exist. Once the snow pack insulation has been depleted, the elements take on the thick penetration of ice thickness, thus deteriorating the thickness. In the meantime, natural springs from below are harvesting oxygen rich circulation and deteriorating the ice thickness from below the ice.