What's open?

[FreediveWI]

I've been hitting Mendota every weekend for the past two months. Last weekend the water was 34F and we had to break through about 100'  of shore ice to hit openwater. Everyhting was clear, but the fish moved out to deeper water- except for the bass, which he can't spear anyway.

I went to check on things today and all of the lakes are frozen solid. The "Outlet" was always the back up spot, but the pipe is off and the ice there is so thick it has a few inches of snow on it. It even looks like people have been going over the area on skiis.

I know they've been tlaking about shutting down the power plant in downtown Madison for a few years. Does anyone know if it's going to be closed all winter? This place was the easiest winter dive around- especially if you wanted to see fish.

Jon