I've talked twice a week for the last month to my guy in Michigan trying to get on the water. Early this week he said there was maybe a 4 foot wide opening down the middle of the river and that was it. Last year on one trip he and I anchored the boat for the wife to sit while he and I broke probably 25 years of ice in a small cove where the boat ramp was. It was the same day that we slid the drift boat down a pretty steep winding road that was covered with ice to get the boat in the river. Probably slid it 75 yards. Crazy, but we boated 3 steelhead that day. My point, those saugers and walleyes are in the river now just waiting for someone crazy enough.