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Maybe for YOU, but NOT me! 😜In fact my buddy texted me from a lake in Wayne Co. this morning..........he is fishing on 8” of ice. Gonna get down into the mid 20’s the next 2 nights. Warm up next week but cold again for next weekend. I plan to fish all weekend and again the following. Then Accuweather is predicting a prolonged cold snap the end of the month into the first week of March. But I don’t give up easy! 😁 I can remember a couple years in the not so distant past that we had a warmup in Feb. and everybody put their stuff away. We got a cold snap in March and I was back on the ice for a week or 2 on 5-6” of ice when everybody else had packed it in. I’m betting we have at least 3-4 more weeks in NEPA! 🤞Of course you gotta be smart and pick the right lakes and SPUD,SPUD,SPUD..................😉
if you're gonna wait for the pack to freeze up each year then you will miss out on a lot of fishing. Gotta expand your horizons brother!
Even if the ice is safe, I hate wading through slush. There's good open water appearing everywhere and you can find fish from the bank. If we do get a cold snap later, I have the equipment ready. But I think we've seen the last of decent ice here in PA for this season.
I'm happy for you guys that have safe ice now ,But here in SW Pa and NW Pa it sure looks like its over! Ten day forecast all days in 50's and 60 's nite only a couple below freezing ,most lakes here are compleatly open water. It would take an epic cold polar vortex that would last quite awhilwe for our lakes to freeze over. Enjoy your ice if ya have it !!!
I’m sitting on 7” of hard ice in Wayne County. It was 25* at the house when I left at 5:30 and 21* when I got here around 6:30. Fishing is slow but I got out and ice is great! 😎P.S. was 39* when I left at 12:30. Ice was still hard on top with no slop, slush or puddles! 😎 We were on 8" today in Wayne County. Same conditions. 18* at the lake. Couldnt kick open the holes that were drilled yesterday. The shore did have some sketchy looking spots comng off at noon but we had no problem.
Those temps won’t hold buttslutt don’t try to be the man here I’m in pike travel to Wayne also 8” will honey comb to garbage in short order don’t try to be a hero and get ppl to fish for now the ice is good rain and 60s 2 weeks b4 a couple nights in the teens use your experience people and please bring a spud out you can definitely still fish but use your Witt’s in this area deeper lake that are wind blown never even froze fully very variable lake to lake