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Ice is not going to melt too much with this warmup. Actually will help it by getting rid of some of the frozen slush that is on top of the black ice from the snow. Nez
The ice is not consistent on most of these lakes, and at 4-5” leaves no margin for error. The rain and warm is going to make it really iffy. Have to hope for another cold spell.
2 or 3 days left before ice starts to melt .
Every night next week will be below freezing. I think we will be ice fishing again.
The low temperatures , are a bottom temperature prolly reached just before Sun up , the temperatures your talking about will never make lake ice because most of the night is going to be above 32*. I like your optimism , but it prolly not well founded .
Well, I got out this morning for a couple hours. Our private lake still had 3 and 1/2 inches of good ice and it was solid. Over a dozen hits with the spud bar before it broke thru. I decided before I went out that I would leave at 10am before things started to get sketchy............... .... It was slow at first but about 9:30 it started to pick up. Caught half a dozen gills and missed a few. Bite was hot at 10 but I stuck to my guns and packed up before things got bad. Went home and set up my shelters to give them a good drying out while it was warm. Full moon middle of the day deer move & fish bite . My theory anywho Probably won’t get back on the ice for a little while but I’ll be ready when conditions permit.