We operate the Outfitters on Cedar Lake and typically it's free of ice around the same time as Opeongo, mainly because it has more flow through. But like last year it has opened up after Opeongo too. The difficulty is sometimes the condition of the road getting down to Brent on Cedar Lake as sometimes it requires quite a bit of maintenance. We haven't been in yet this season but we did hire a couple of guys to go in earlier on snowmobiles to shovel the roof of it's snow load and they commented that they thought it was going to be late this season. I wouldn't guarantee it to be open by trout season opening. Currently I'm guessing around May 10th for both Opeongo and Cedar but we still have time for mother nature to make changes, warm positive temps over night, rain and wind will all help move things along.
Here's a couple of pictures we took from Lake Opeongo yesterday April 17th 2019