Ice conditions have improved slightly from the above freezing temperature stretch we have endured. Last night I walked off solid ice at Lot 60 when a week ago it was stepping through one foot deep water. This is on Lake Mendota where there still is an open water heave at the front of Warner Bay. Hopefully it will skim over or expand to overlap. Fishing was steady action on small gills. I thought it was like fishing Wingra, not the big lake.