I’m sure you’ve heard it before, and might have agreed at times, there’s no fish in Volga Lake. I can honestly say that after ice fishing it many times in the last couple of years I was skeptical if there were any “Nice” gils to be had, as I have always had to wade through a bunch of smaller ones. Yesterday, I spent the day with my nephew on Volga Lake, started late, about 10AM, and had decent luck. He had good luck, mine was decent, as he caught about 75% of our fish. We did catch a few smaller fish, but most were over 8 inches and a couple went 9. No pics as mom’s digital camera was still on the table where it was placed so I wouldn’t forget to take it along 
Bottomline, fish were deep, only a couple came under a bobber, most were in 5 – 8 fow, right on the bottom. A piece of crawler was the ticket.
One side note, I can’t say the bass were doing much, as jigs and grubs or worms, spinnerbaits, topwaters, and rat’l traps got zip. But then I’m not much of a bass (or anything else 
) fisherman. However at least 3 or 4 times, little 4 inch largemouth bass hit small pieces of crawler on the bottom with a vengance, all were carefully released to grow into big green fish. 
dave