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catgrizfans,That would be great. Look forward to getting your report. I'm here in Florence and our plan was to go over on Saturday. This may depend on your report. Good luck.(We made a quick trip to GT Lake this morning 12/5) (had to get back so did not fish). The lake is completely iced over expect for a stringer of what appears to be open water west of Denton's Point. Two ice fishing parties near Sunnyside, one at Comers Point, and one over near Red Bridge. We drilled holes on the West Side and measured with tape. Solid 3-3.5 inches of new ice 25 to 100 feet out from shore. The exception was one point at Sunnyside when we walked out another 200 feet there was less than 2 inches in one hole. Roads ok but a little slick, only a couple of inches snow so access roads are fine. Warmer temps (36 degrees when we left mid morning) than expected coupled with brisk south end is causing some degradation to the existing ice, ie slush. Also wind has made portions slick to walk on without cleats. Bottom line: We have decided to wait a little longer for colder weather and a little thicker ice, but people are fishing.)
Quote from: .45-75WCF on Dec 03, 2008, 02:05 PMcatgrizfans,That would be great. Look forward to getting your report. I'm here in Florence and our plan was to go over on Saturday. This may depend on your report. Good luck.(We made a quick trip to GT Lake this morning 12/5) (had to get back so did not fish). The lake is completely iced over expect for a stringer of what appears to be open water west of Denton's Point. Two ice fishing parties near Sunnyside, one at Comers Point, and one over near Red Bridge. We drilled holes on the West Side and measured with tape. Solid 3-3.5 inches of new ice 25 to 100 feet out from shore. The exception was one point at Sunnyside when we walked out another 200 feet there was less than 2 inches in one hole. Roads ok but a little slick, only a couple of inches snow so access roads are fine. Warmer temps (36 degrees when we left mid morning) than expected coupled with brisk south end is causing some degradation to the existing ice, ie slush. Also wind has made portions slick to walk on without cleats. Bottom line: We have decided to wait a little longer for colder weather and a little thicker ice, but people are fishing.)Thanks for the info. 40degF at my house this morning so I think I will pass until there is more ice. I like 6" of ice before I go. Making sausage today so will stay house and babysit the smokehouse.
catgrizfans,That would be great. Look forward to getting your report. I'm here in Florence and our plan was to go over on Saturday. This may depend on your report. Good luck.(We made a quick trip to GT Lake this morning 12/5) (had to get back so did not fish). The lake is completely iced over expect for a stringer of what appears to be open water west of Denton's Point. Two ice fishing parties near Sunnyside, one at Comers Point, and one over near Red Bridge. We drilled holes on the West Side and measured with tape. Solid 3-3.5 inches of new ice 25 to 100 feet out from shore. The exception was one point at Sunnyside when we walked out another 200 feet there was less than 2 inches in one hole. Roads ok but a little slick, only a couple of inches snow so access roads are fine. Warmer temps (36 degrees when we left mid morning) than expected coupled with brisk south end is causing some degradation to the existing ice, ie slush. Also wind has made portions slick to walk on without cleats. Bottom line: We have decided to wait a little longer for colder weather and a little thicker ice, but people are fishing.)Thanks for the info. 40degF at my house this morning so I think I will pass until there is more ice. I like 6" of ice before I go. Making sausage today so will stay house and babysit the smokehouse.
Hyalite has no good ice and is open on the upper end by the boat dock.
Well, after reading catgrizfans report last evening about the conditions at Georgetown Lake, I wasn't very excited about going over today. Especially when my fishing partner had to cancel because of the flu. Against my better judgement, winter storm/freezing ice warnings and the not-so-hot-so lake reports I'd heard, I went over anyway by myself. I left Florence at 6:15 and was in my ice house fishing by 8:30. There were only six houses on the lake that I could see and four of them were at Sunnyside. That is our usual hangout so I was pleased to see others in the same area. I drilled a hole in about 4" of good ice (be sure to wear your ice cleats, because it's REALLY slick) put my jig in the water, watched the fish finder and before 9:30, I had landed fourteen Rainbow and one Salmon. By the time I left at 2:00pm I had caught only two Salmon, but I landed fourty four Rainbow. That's right, fourty four. It was a GREAT first day of the season.[/Glad you had a good first day. Boy you must have been cleaning trout till midnight!!! (just kidding!) Another couple of guys we know from Stevi must have fished near you Sat. and reported near 4 inches ice and lots of small trout , but only 3-4 salmon which isn't unusual there for the salmon this time of year. Curious, did you hook on to any of the older age class trout, ie 17-20+ inchers? Last year was the first year for a long time that we did not catch many of the bigger trout in the Badger Bay Area. Again, good job and didn't mean to be too conservative with my report but worry about someone without experience reading it and getting into trouble in the early season. Hope to see you on the ice!!! ]
Yeah.. you're right, there's noo fishable ice at hylite. . Then how did I fish 5-6 inches of ice both saturday AND sunday?