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There was someone fishing on a couple inches in the Poconos yesterday morning. I saw the video but will not post it and support such behavior.
Damn, surprised to see so many people shooting for ice in mid-December. Last year was my first season ice fishing in North Central PA and we didn't get out until second week of January. Hope you all are right! Hitting the Tackle Shack open house this weekend and I think I'm going to be fully out of hunting mode and fully into hardwater mode.
Glad i did not put the boat away. This weather stinks...
Good luck on your move Crappie-addict!I'll be checking ice up here a bit more often now, it's a bit early yet but I'm hoping to be walking on water before Christmas!
dude, the difference between Chester and Pike are night and day. There are several lakes that I can believe will have ice on em by Christmas. But weather is weather, we will see what we will see. (Image removed from quote.)
You think the Pocono lakes will freeze by then? Down here in Chester County its been warm and rainy, about the usual anymore.
I would bet on it! 😜There is a HUGE difference between Philly and the Poconos! Even Lehigh Valley and the Poconos. My wife was in Bethlehem yesterday doing some Christmas shopping- nothing but rain there. Meanwhile in Pike Co. it was snowing all day and was a winter wonderland. She got stuck 4 miles from home when the firemen shut down the road to pull 2 cars back up the embankment. Heck, there’s even a big difference between Pike and Northern Wayne/Susquehanna counties.......... one year we had open water in Pike and we were fishing on 8” of solid ice at Belmont and Upper woods! 🤪I’ll be out checking ice starting tomorrow on one of my local lakes. It is usually 2-3” behind some of the other colder Pocono lakes, so that usually gives me a pretty good idea. Then I activate the NEPA Ice Recon Team to get a firsthand (“boots on the ice”) report!