TOMAHAWK - Saturday might have looked like a perfect day to go fishing.
But some of the Northwoods lakes weren't accessible.
That's because some of them still have ice on it.
Opening day for fishing season began Saturday.
People traveled across the state to get a bite of the Northwoods.
But some had to drag their boats to another lake because of the ice.
A business owner in Tomahawk says he sees fishermen come to his shop to get gear because the rivers in Tomahawk are thawed.
"We're in a real groovy situation here. We have three main rivers. Therefore they're ice free," said Chuck's Sport Shop owner, Chuck Grig.
"We have seven large dams. We have five big flowages. So we're fish-able."
Grig says icy lakes aren't the problem for business being slow today.
It's the bag limit on walleyes.
"A lot of people that normally come up from south haven't. But we compensate for that with the ice up north. So we're getting business from up north," Grig said.
MOSINEE - From here on out, Mosinee's Kevin Osterbrink will plow snow with a Stormy Kromer hat on his head--and a Stormy Kromer pattern on his plow.
Osterbrink entered his wife, Kayla Cisler-Osterbrink, in a prize drawing from Stormy Kromer and BOSS Snowplow. Her entry won, and BOSS delivered the red plaid patterned snowplow on Friday in Mosinee.
"I was tapping maple trees, and my wife showed up and said I had some homework to do because she won the plow," Osterbrink said, remembering how he found out they won.
"The first thing I told her was, 'That's the last thing I need, more work to do.' She said, 'Well, I think you want to do this, because you just won the Stormy Kromer plow," Osterbrink said.
RHINELANDER - Oneida County needs more foster care homes. Right now, there are nine licensed foster homes in the area, most of which are full according to the county's social services department.
Foster Care Coordinator Rachel Nelson says that in Oneida County there are 24 children currently living in foster homes. The department participated in a statewide foster care recruitment project last fall, and discovered just how great the need is.
RHINELANDER - A snow storm caught Hanson's Garden Village in Rhinelander off guard last weekend and collapsed a greenhouse. Now that spring weather is here, Hanson's is ready to move forward by making some adjustments. "We got by for 25 years doing what we were doing," said Hanson's Garden Village Co-owner Brent Hanson. Last weekend's spring snow storm set back Hanson's. "We thought we were ahead of schedule having that greenhouse nice and filled," said Hanson's Manager Beth Hanson.
"One bad storm and there you go. Things happen," said Brent. The storm collapsed a greenhouse holding thousands of plants. "For years we've gotten by with these lighter cheaper green houses," said Brent. "We'll be down a greenhouse for a little bit here," said Beth. Now Hanson's will only use sturdier and solid greenhouses so that collapses don't become a pattern.
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