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Michigan => Ice Fishing Michigan U.P. => Topic started by: Graygills22 on Jan 06, 2021, 07:45 PM
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Ice thickness please? Thanks in advance
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Lots of ice on small lakes 6-8" as of last Saturday. 4-5" snow cover. No slush. People are fishing large lakes but test the ice over deeper water.
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I’m coming down in the first weekend of March for a little fishing trip. Hope the ice isn’t too thick for my battery powered auger 😂
Anyone been fishing in the lakes there recently?
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Haven't been fishing but crossed two lakes by snowmobile a couple days ago. Felt like I was on a waverunner, slush was unreal! Thought the slush might be tightening up a bit with the cold weather but apparently the snow is providing enough insulation.
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Oh boy gonna have to bring the sled down. Maybe some warmer days and a nightly freeze will help
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Was wondering how thick ice was? If anyone knows thanks in advance and hope you been catching!
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Going down tomorrow, got a cabin in Gaastra. Likely going to target crappie and pike on ice lake tomorrow and figure out where to go for the PM
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I’ll let you know then how the conditions are
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I’ll let you know then how the conditions are
thanks buddy
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Plenty of ice with around 20" but plenty of slush. Navigation is difficult. I wouldn't take a side-by-side out there. Even snowmobiles are getting stuck if they stop by their fishing spot and its slushy. Warmer temperature will eventually get rid of the snow and then it will all freeze together. We were out at Iron Lake with the High School fishing derby last Saturday. That was before the big snowfall on Sunday. Even on the plowed road trucks that tried to go out broke through the slush and had to go back carefully.
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No slush, it’s all frozen but you’ll break through it while walking
Panfish bite is really good on ice lake and had a decent amount of flags so far
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Thanks for the update
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Slushy on sunset by the boat launch none at the middle though lots of ice to drill through
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We also tried Indian, iron and sunset again. Caught pike on every lake we tried but didn’t get many flags. Not completely familiar with the lakes down there. Best panfish bite was on iron and ice lake. Lots of small ones
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Hows the ice holding up after the rain? :-\
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I’ve been up in chassell pike fishing and we’ve went from 20 to 14 inches of ice. Really slippery to walk on. I assume it’ll be similar there as well.
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Thinking about coming up next week.....will the ice still be good? Thanks in advance.
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Give Gloria from Luckey’s a call. She always gets customers in there giving her reports on lakes. Really helpful
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Thanks I did. Very helpful. Thanks
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We were out last Saturday and the ice is in excellent condition with no slush and no snow on top. 20" of ice but 6" of it is lower quality frozen slush layer. Not very slippery where we were as temp were in the 50's and windy
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Any new updates? Coming up 25th 26 27...appreciated. thanks
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Any new updates? Coming up 25th 26 27...appreciated. thanks
I think you will be lucky to find safe ice by then. This weekend its going to take a beating with 50+ temps. Add the 3 days of rain next week and im willing to bet shorelines will be gone.
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Lots of good ice as of 3/20. No snow or slush. Rain coming for 2 days. Mon/Tues in 50's. All before 3/25.
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Hows the shore?
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I'm not in Iron County, but many lakes by me around Land O'Lakes are losing ice at shore.
https://phenocam.sr.unh.edu/webcam/sites/NEON.D05.CRAM.DP1.20002/
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Hope I get on!
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Made it out to one favorite lakes!
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Ice is done now. We went out on Saturday. No one else around. We were limited to only certain places on the different lakes we visited. Most lakes were not accessible even with a board.