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The winter survey wrapped up earlier than planned when warm temperatures brought a premature end to ice fishing on the big lake. Typically, winter creel surveys on Lake of the Woods continue through March, Talmage said.
Phil Talmage, area DNR fisheries manager, Baudette, Minn.
“Our season got cut off kind of abruptly,” he said. “That’s probably enough to account for why it was down just a titch from last year.”
Still, pressure remains “very high,” and the vast network of plowed ice roads, many of which extend 20 miles or more onto the lake, means the DNR will have to adjust the way it conducts winter creel surveys on Lake of the Woods, Talmage said.