FORT FRANCES—While there will be areas of open water on Rainy Lake for Minnesota anglers on their walleye-opener this Saturday, the North Arm of Rainy Lake remains iced in.
While it all depends on the good graces of Mother Nature, at least two local pilots were hopeful “ice-out” would occur prior to the Ontario walleye-opener next weekend.
Mike Dick of Rusty Myers Flying Service said Thursday morning he hasn’t been flying for a couple of days, but that anyone could see there’s still a lot of ice in the North Arm just by looking out from the Noden Causeway.