Anywhere thawed out yet?

[FreediveWI]

If there's current there's some warm water coming out of the pipe- just don't expect a jaccuzi.

Diving it with a tank on is overkill. The entier area is so shallow that it's really not needed- unless your going up the pipe. We freedive up the pipe to where the tunnel splits and then swim down the other side to scare all the fish out. It's a blast whent here is a good current coming out to fly down the tunnel waving your arms and see how many musky and carp you can bring out with you.

If you go further out there are some sloping drop offs to about 35'- right under the wooden barrier the city puts up. I have never been dissapointed in finding a few anchors, fishing poles, fishing arrows, ect. Vis last time I was out was in the 30' range.

Not the most exciting dive around but with the Lender out for the winter it's easier than cutting a hole with a chainsaw everytime you want to jump in.

Another, easy, winter dive I used to do when I lived in Milwaukee was to dive Government pier or the mairinas looking for lost tools, sunglasses, wallets, ect. the peir is the best because you can walk out over a mile and just jump in fo a swim back to shore. If you get cold just swim up to one of the orange ladders and climb out! 8) It doesn't get much easier- unless the ice flows are blowing in and then you can just climb up on top of one and ride it into shore.

As far as diving Lake Columbia goes, there's NO vis in the lake. It's a nice place to kayak, jetski, or fish in the middle of winter but not some place you would want to dive- unless you were practicing zero-vis search patterns or something.

Jon