Thread: Winter fishing question

I don't use my bilge or my livewell pump in the winter and have never had any problems. I suppose if there is water trapped in one of the hoses it could freeze and bust. Sangchris was open as of last Thursday, with a balmy water temperature of 58 degrees at the hot ditch ramp. We were on Shelbyville out of coal shaft on Friday but had to break some ice and I'm sure it is locked back up by now. Not personally sure of Clinton, but have'nt heard of any plant shut down so I assume it is also open. Real, real hard to beat SANGCHRIS!!!

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Mavs, I know how ya feel!!!!! I would be more worried about Ramps, don't want boat & truck in Water!! Do like I do, get a cold beverage, sit in the bump seat, pitch into 5 gal. buckets with Jimmy Houston on the TV in the garage!!!! Wife has finally declaired me NUTS.

Hey JT fished Sangchris on Sunday. When we got to the boat dock there were three guys with a 18' polar craft that would not come off the trailer it was frozen to the bunks they had there 115 rpm out trying to get it off. They finally moved over so that we could launch. Got the boat off the trailer without any problems and it fired right up. But no water coming from the pump. The intakes were frozen and was not getting water pressure. I let it idle for about 2 mins and finally got pressure and water but when I put it in gear it had me locked out. After 30 mins of running the trolling motor I fired it back up and it ran right. The other guys had gotten there boat off the trailer and were using there trolling motor. About 2 hours later I seen them on there way back to the ramp there trolling motor had stopped. We battled frozen line and tips. and the little water that I did have in the boat froze up. The water temps were 39.5 at the discharge and later in the day we ran up to the main lake and had a higher temp of 41.3 I am a little baffled about that. With temp in the teens on Sunday the fishing was not that bad the winds were calm and the bite was a little slow but still a good day of fishin.

We use 5 gal. buckets in winter time instead of livewells. my buddy plugs his livewells off in the winter time to keep out water. make sure you trim motor down as far as you can to let all the water drain out after pulling boat out of water. we dont have any problems, but we are in southern illinois and is probably a shade warmer. probably depends on where you store it also. we store ours in garage, that helps.

39 and 41 for sangchris? that almost doesnt seem right. Wonder why it dropped almost 20 degrees from thursday when cropee7 was there?

Birdman: Im not sure either I fished on Wednesday however I just completed the install on my Humminbird 788 on Sat and I dont have a report on the water temp from the 5th. I can tell you that I asked another boat for his temp and it was within 1/10 of the temp I was getting. Any other temp reading from sangchris would be helpful as I want to make sure there is nothing wrong with the new graph.

They might not run the plant every day. It's a coal burner so I think they can shut it off for a couple.