every lake is different, larger lakes take longer to start turnover, and longer to finish the process typically....local weather influences it, sun,...
if you get the timing right it is often the best fishing of the year....even when the ice sheet is deteriorating on lake, but the shorelines or bays...
Unfortunately, the rifles are getting lighter because we are getting heavier and more unfit as a society. This is the key to the mainstream acceptance of the short magnums. - Nathan Foster