It won't to long now

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Originally Posted by CTom

We crawled out of the 20's and into the mid-30's today. Not a lot of wind, wind....nice breeze at times. Smaller bodies of water maybe iced over now but the big water will be a bit yet.

I don't much mess with ice any more. I sold all of the major stuff a couple years ago but kept a one man port, hand auger and spud. And my ICE CREEPERS. With many areas of the river open all winter, if I feel like getting cold while fishing I'll take the boat out. In addition to knowing where some good walleye and sauger fishing can be had I also know where the crappies are hanging out too and they are way more fun on a long rod and from the boat.

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We found some open river water fishing last winter, too, up here in the Cities. Gotta agree more fun on the long rod, and a lot less messing around when you don't have to be cutting ice holes all over.

I was in Georgia all this past week. I left Monday morning to temps at 10 degrees and snow on the ground. I was pretty impressed to see the smaller lakes completely ice over (skim ice) when we flew back in on Friday. Temps are back up though in the 30's.

We drove to Grand Rapids on Friday for the grandson's basketball game. Home on Saturday [yesterday]. Just before Hill City there was a portable on a small lake and from the Highway I could see the ice sagging under the weight. I had to wonder what kind of lightweights needed an ice shack on Friday with the temps well into the 30's, but then to be on ice thin enough that it had them sitting in a puddle when the hole got cut.

What with the wobbly weather and bouncing temps we've had this year thin ice may well be the norm for a while and I just don't understand why people push the envelope. People breaking thru the ice are 10 times more likely to become a statistic than those who go in open water. Lots of risk in taking chances on the ice when it is thin.

Mother nature threw us a curve today,40 degree temps with west wind gusts up to 30 mph. All our snow melted today and all the lakes have water on the ice.
Not good,not good at all; I don.t see any cold weather in the near future. :-(

I'm enjoying what we have. Today the smoker is running in high gear to finish up my venison summer sausage. Thursday it will be the jerky that gets smoked. Heck, I just finished digging my carrots this morning.

We have 49 right now. Supposed to get cold again for a bit. Don't know if we have any ice left or not....