Got up to fish and while boiling my water for the day, I found my minnows! I hid them in a cooking pot. I put out some tipups and fished some new spots on the bay. Snow cover was about 30" to get down to the ice, so I experimented with a few different setups. Sometimes I'd dig the whole seating area out to the ice, sometimes I'd just carve in a spot for the hole and the flasher, sometimes just an auger hole through snow and ice. Pretty significant wind today as a system moves in, so I set up some wind blocks and filled the tipup holes with snow. generally, I could expect a couple inches of water over the top of the ice once I've drilled the hole with the weight of the snow, less towards shore. After 4 hours of fishing, I read from Calvin Rutstrum's "Paradise Below Zero" back at the tipi and took a breif midday nap. Caught my first laker through the ice in the BWCA after getting back out there. It flew up off the bottom in about 18' of water and I had a solid hookup! Good eater size, lots of trouble for that fish but I was so happy I made it happen. Pan fried trout and had frybread for dinner. It started snowing just before I turned in for bed.