So I ventured out to Newman for the first time to try my luck. Found the WDFW parking area alright and headed out from there. Ice was in great condition with about 2 inches of new snow on top. Ice is probably 12-14 inches thick from what I could tell. I drilled my first hole right about where the 5 m.p.h. marker is and the depth there was only about 6 feet. So I started drilling a hole about every 100 feet or so until I was out to about 20 feet of depth (maybe 200 yards from shore). I fished with about everything I had on me including various sizes and colors of swedish pimples topped with maggots and white jigs, black jigs with yellow eyes, and black jigs with yellow eyes with a little silver blade all tipped with maggots. Never had so much as a bite from what I could tell. Worked everything from the bottom up through the water column but no luck. One of the locals on a snow mobile came by with an underwater camera he'd picked up at Cabelas. He lowered that in my hole to see if anything was moving about. Was hard to tell as it was dark under the ice but we did see one fish when he first lowered it down. He only checked my furthest hole so I don't know what the others had, but even if they were there they weren't biting.

If anyone has any advice please give it up. There were no other fishermen on the lake that I could tell. As I said, because it was my first time there I am totally unfamiliar with the structure of the lake or where the fish might be hiding. If I knew that I might have had better luck.