Quote Originally Posted by wannabe fisherman View Post
If I remember right the last time the Ohio froze over was in 1971. Even though people were warned that it could be dangerous there were still people walking on it. Was not a smooth surface because of the broken slabs from the barges running through it.
Nope. She froze in 1977, 78, and a good bit in the winter of 83/84. It sucked to be a River Rat those years. In 77 and 78 there was ice plum down to Vicksburg Mississippi. I spent a lot of the winter of 78 froze in, in the middle of Peoria Lake on the M/V F.R. Bigelow. We were up there trying to bust ice for the Commonwealth Edison Oil tows to get to Joliet. River gorged up and we were stranded! I have a picture at home of a black Ford Pickup backed up to our galley door, putting groceries on us in the middle of the lake. I was stuck on that boat for 48 days!!!