Around Madison in Southern Wisconsin the true cold has not really set in well. Today I was on the south side of Monona walking on refrozen chunk ice that had lots of slush that needed to be cleared from the hole or you couldn't even get a minnow down. The open water was a predominant area and it hasn't had calm single digits, instead windy ones which breaks up the skim and pushes it, and the water chilled by the air as slush under it. There are protected areas that have formed clear 3 inch ice but oddly the fishing isn't very good and the usual hot spots are not. Things can get only better