Lake Irvine - Monday, January 23, 2012

 Simply stated, you are asking us on a web page for permission to break the law.
The majority of lake alice is on the refuge, currently that refuge is off limits to ice fishing and ALL vehicle travel.
Are there people over the boundary fishing, you betcha, everyday.  Does that make it ok, NOPE.  
If you wanna go over the boundary you are playing the old game of russian roulette.  You may or may not get fined or even caught.
One thing to contemplate is this is a Federal Refuge.  If a state warden gets you they are usually quite understanding and aren't going to throw the book at you, federal wardens are a totally different story and Lake Alice is like their little baby, if they get you, you will get fined and it will be steep.
Also, the boundary markers that were out there this summer have moved way to the east and are actually quite a ways onto the refuge, and if you try to claim that you thought you were ok because of the buoys, the wardens will just tell you that "claiming ignorance is not a viable defense"
There is a push from area anglers in the Lake Region to get Lake Alice opened for ice fishing, but with all of the garbage being left on Lake Irvine from certain groups of people,it is not going quite as well as planned.  If you are out there, leave it better than you found it, and your ice hole is not an appropriate beer can receptacle.

cootkiller

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Region: Lake Irvine

Categories: Fishing