55 degrees in Rochester!!!

[labtech23]

WHAT THE !@#$  this is january...well almost february. I am really starting to get worried here. Any of the old timers remember a season without any fishable ice?  I wish the weather would make up its mind, cold or warm.
I am driving around with a jet sled in my car and I am thinking about trying to paddle out in it and fish...I could use the auger for an anchor.

-55 in rochester and not happy

[waterguy]

SUCKS 55 IN SYRACUSE TOO time to get the boat out I guess

[hookedonice]

50 outside my back door here in Franklinville.
I think mother nature is a little 

[biggvinn2000]

You think thats bad, come to Ohio! We have not had ice for a month.The only ice fix I get is here on this website.

[esox slayer]

Well, it's 40 here on Chaumont Bay as I type this and I think that temp sucks, and it's way lower than anyone else is reporting so far...low tonight here, 34 degrees...not gonna make ice that way......

[trouter]

THIS IS ONE YEAR I WISHED I HADNT PUT MY BOAT IN STORAGE. I HAVE CARRIED MY ICE SLED IN VEHICLE FOR OVER A MONTH NOW AND HAVENT USED IT YET. I DID FISH FROM SHORE TODAY ON A LOCAL LAKE JUST TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN.I LOVE TO ICE FISH BUT AT LEAST WE ARE GETTING CLOSER TO SPRING AND IM NOT BURNING SO MUCH WOOD. TAKE THE GOOD WITH THE BAD.

[applejacks]

I recorded 52 near Plattsburgh on the Ny -Vt border about 20 miles from Canada.  I am 56 and do not recall any winter that had such almost consistent above average temperatures

[wnybassman]

I am really starting to get worried here. Any of the old timers remember a season without any fishable ice? 

I thought about 4 years ago was about the same.  I remember Conesus freezing completely over for a day and a half (a friend of mine lived on the lake), and Silver had safe conditions for about two weeks or so.

Fortunately I got on Silver this year as much as I did, about 8 or 9 times.  We'll have more, but the next week or two don't look so hot.

I wonder how this warm winter will affect the maple run this spring??

[fishingking]

dont worry guys the cold is coming at the end of january and begging of feb they are calling for temps in CNY to be 25 high and 5 lows  in the negative digits the further north you go like around lake george

[RTF]

I wonder how this warm winter will affect the maple run this spring??

I wonder this too as I am a hobbyist maple producer. I don't know guys it's 4:30 am in the morning here in CNY and we are sitting at 50 degree's. I did here the it will turn cold today.

[esox slayer]

Not much better here guys....at 0558 it's 36 degrees here on Chaumont Bay with a 12 mph north wind and rain, we're forecast to go down to 15 degrees tonight...

[GAMBELL]

The only good thing about this weather is a couple more warm days and I will have my boat ready for spring.  I really wish the ice would hurry up and come back.