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From the ice I was on this past weekend I would say if we get much snow it may put an end to my ice fishing for the year.
Hopeful that this snow will sink the ice and allow water to get up on top and make the snow slush allowing it to freeze good
NOBODY seeks to have slush. Typically, there will be only some water forced to the top which will remain UNDER some of the insulating snow. The result is that the ice is worse and not better. In addition, even when very cold temps are able to freeze the underlying slush, the net ice is less strong than it would have been if there was no snow.
The ice will not gain at all with snow ontop, if the snow mixes with water and becomes slush or even just water the ice will actually make ice. I think you missed the concept I was getting at, this is what happened 2 weeks ago and doubled our ice. I could probably still be fishing now if I really wanted to
Just because there is 4 inches of frozen junk ontop of 1 inch of clear ice doesn't make it 5 inches of good ice . It's ok to get that 4 inches of frozen junk on top of 8 inches of good clear ice ! But not what we have now your asking for a death bed
We have good ice making temps coming, my point is it will make good ice under this crap ice unless it has 5 inches of snow insulating it. I'm fishing right now on 3 inches of junk and 4 inches of hard ice.
If we get the warm temp they are talking about at the end of the weekend, it is going to be a mess.