ICE IS HERE. BITTER COLD TEMPS BRING ICE

[iceintheveins]

Well a big ol snowstorm hit and gave us about 5" of snow in the valley and 3 feet in the mountains. Behind it was that arctic blast I've been waiting for. We have been in the low 20's for our highs this week and zero or below at night, and that is in the valley. Going to hit Island Lake this weekend for brookies, bows, and splake. Hope for some suckers for laker bait too. After that it's our annual trip to Taylor Reservoir, looking for the big macks.

Tyler

[JigAwhopper]

...that just makes me jealous,  you must live up at North Pole and Santa is you neighboor  .   because we're still in the fifties here and it's raining like crazy.  I won't winterize my boat for another 2-3 weeks I think!                      J.

[grumpymoe]

ice has set in pretty good here.......this past sunday Big Walleye, Little Reel and i hit our second spot....overnight low was the coldest yet...got up this morning to -13F....                                                                                                        ..............this is the Big guy....Grump

[oakorchardfishking]

nice pic there grump... that ice looks nice and it looks like you guys had it all to yourselves too! im jealous... here in buffalo,ny area we are in the 40's during the day and not quite reaching freezing at night! lots of rain, some snow in the forcast but back to warm again over the weekend! its gonna be some time before we see any decent ice!
by the way, what kind of fish is that in the picture? cant really tell!

[grumpymoe]

The Big guy is holding a walleye....snow covered at that... ....Grump

[walleyeslayer]

Well a big ol snowstorm hit and gave us about 5" of snow in the valley and 3 feet in the mountains. Behind it was that arctic blast I've been waiting for. We have been in the low 20's for our highs this week and zero or below at night, and that is in the valley. Going to hit Island Lake this weekend for brookies, bows, and splake. Hope for some suckers for laker bait too. After that it's our annual trip to Taylor Reservoir, looking for the big macks.

Tyler

youre lucky man.  sitting here in mi, outlook bleek for the next ten days anyways.  temp will just get to freezing as a low!  im goin crazy over here

[Blaine]

I am VERY jealous right now .... Keep the pictures coming. We needsomething to give us hope down here

[iceintheveins]

I live in Western Colorado. We don't get as cold as Minnesota or Canada in the middle elevations, but our high elevations often are 40 below with the windchill or greater in the winter during the day. Hoping for some splake this weekend, though probably I'll just get brookies and rainbows.

Tyler

[Oldfart]

I think I'm taking the canoe out on Sunday!

[wkules]

Nice one grump,
Another Buffalo native made jealous by your fortunate early ice fishing season. If it wasn't for hunting I would be climbing the walls right now. Tight lines

[Thriller]

Actually, it was a bit late for Manitoba standards although not as late as it can be...if it had taken any longer, I think Grumpymoe would really have been driven to some sort of madness...perhaps getting into too much homemade wine...    BTW, GMoe, we bottled the Riesling on Sunday.

[grumpymoe]

  ...Grump

[big walleye]

That walleye was actually 28 inches long. Darn Grump and his camera tricks

[Trophy Hunter]

Today was my fifth time on the ice and it was freakin cold!! -20c with the windchill it felt like -30c brrrrrrrrrr

[Reelinrolly]

and the fish TH?....did you get any???........im going out on sat.....not on ice though.....gonna see if I can hook into some steel......maybe try for some pike as welll.......we will see what happens

[Trophy Hunter]

and the fish TH?....did you get any???........im going out on sat.....not on ice though.....gonna see if I can hook into some steel......maybe try for some pike as welll.......we will see what happens

Rolly i got a nice 16.5" walleye 2 perch and 2 pike pretty slow day.