Over & Out - See You Next Season

[mono_mono]

It's over here unless I decide to chase the ice up north. Second straight year if fell apart in February. Have a great off season guys, time to dig out the Mustang GT!

[metalbender]

Our ice is still building. Was out yesterday, three feet of black ice. Another monrh before the shacks have to come off.

[bobberbill]

All done here in Mi SW.. Lake blew out with the wind last night. Watching white caps. Looks good again. Just finished packing all my ice stuff away. Kept 2 poles ready for some early boat fishing on a calm evening. Where did I put my golf clubs...

[Sylvanboat]

Gear all packed away. I'm now staring at the boat.

[iowapackfan]

  one more week of ice fishing (maybe) around here in SW Iowa

[fish_finder]

Havin a warm spell here at thr momebt but still a solid 2 feet most places  Wil be fishing til end of March likely

[perch chacer]

I'm not un-loading my truck yet.  We'll wait and see what the next few weeks brings.

[Chris338378]

Our ice is still building. Was out yesterday, three feet of black ice. Another monrh before the shacks have to come off.

Sooooooooooooooooooo jealous.

[SLAYERFISH]

Funny. Our metro lakes went from 99% open to fully capped in a week. Guys are fishing lake areas where no one has ice fished in 2 years!  SMH-

A pleasant surprise!

[Bucket Rump]

Still fishing here, but above freezing temps and strong winds for the next 7-10 days will take a toll on what ice we have.  Snow has been gone for over a week already....

[perchnut]

Same here,,,,unless i head nort, im done as well.  Kinda sad putting the wrap up on everything.....but i got out more this year than the past two years combined....caught some great fish, made some new acquaintances, so all in all a good year.  Will probably build a couple more rods in the off season....only cause i need more rods.....   

[mono_mono]

Perchnut, I am happy you got to play on the ice. Virginia is pretty far south to ice fish

[eriksat1]

I feel for you guys. Dam if our season was as short as some of you have I highly doubt I would spend as much money as I do on ice fishing gear. We have at least another month yet, we started ice fishing about a week after Thanksgiving. I just bought and put on a new 12” extension on my K-drill so the nose of my drill doesn’t get wet when I finally break through the ice.

[ItsmeitsmeitsJSG]

IM not sure what I'm supposed to do until haddock opens april 12th? just stare into space I guess

[eriksat1]

On a normal year the end of our ice fishing season you can usually do either or. Still find safe ice, or find open water to launch a boat, panfish season is open year round.

[mboss13]

On a normal year the end of our ice fishing season you can usually do either or. Still find safe ice, or find open water to launch a boat, panfish season is open year round.

We'll be having ice for at least another month, but probably way into April too.

[eriksat1]

Usually you don’t want a lot of snow on the ice for making ice. But now we have plenty of ice, so now all the snow on top is going to protect it from the sun and insulate it. Last time we had a situation like this the big lakes were still locked up with ice the first week of May.

[perchnut]

i grew up in wisconsin and remember it well...i may have to schedule a long weekend to go 'visit family'.....

[Light liner]

Another 2 or 3 weeks here, another cold snap would help.