Things have firmed up! After the last few warm days, things are looking good on Lake Waconia! The rougher and rutted up areas have smoothed out quite a bit after the warm up. Yesterday there was as much as 1.5 inches of water in low areas before it refroze last night.
While the main lake has firmed up nicely, a few anglers with wheel houses reported they had water draining down and swirling in their holes last night as the warm weather changed to cold and wind. It wouldn't be a bad idea to check on your house.
As far as ice thickness we are pretty much right back to where we were when we did our last major ice check update on 1/9/26. We had lost a little ice during the warm up and recovered it and maybe a little more last night once it got cold. Today, 1/14/26 we focused on checking in Waconia Bay and on the way to Center Reef where our road will eventually be. We found the most common thickness to be between 13 to 14 inches. Some areas with added frozen slush ice is still a little more. We also checked on the south side of Coney Island as that area was some of the lesser ice from the last report. In front of the island remained the thinnest area with 12 to 12.5 inches of ice.
Half Tons and Single Axle's! Starting Thursday, 1/15/26 we will be allowing HALF TON trucks with SINGLE AXLE houses on the ice through our landing. If you have a capable ATV or Side by side and dolly to pull it, we will allow reasonable sized tandem houses to go on through here. FYI there is a bit of a hill as you approach the ice at our landing. Please do NOT drive on the ice with a truck at our access with a tandem house yet, even to just unhook. We will also be allowing up to 1 ton trucks with NO houses behind them on through our access starting Thursday 1/15/26.
The cold weather looks to be here for a good while. We should make a lot more ice fast in the near future as long as the snow mostly stays away. We all need banking snow, but need to grow more ice first!
To use our private access, Winter Season Passes are $40. If you’d prefer to pay daily, rates are $2 to walk on, or $5 per day for Cars, Trucks, ATV’s, side-by-sides and snowmobiles. As always, use our access at your own risk
Our Rental Fish Houses are out and we still have availability! Call 952-442-2096 to reserve!
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