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IceShanty Main => General Ice Fishing Chit Chat => Topic started by: Iceshanty on Feb 09, 2018, 09:04 AM
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Checking to see what the ice conditions are like for everyone in FEB this year? Last year at this time our ice was melting fast right now. This year in NE WI we have 20" plus most places and it's super cold with great solid Full Sized Truck ice right now.
1. Open water
2. Ice but its shot
3. Walking only ice
4. Four wheelers ice
5. Small Car ice
6. Full Sized Trucks ice
7. Drifter Type ice!
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Central Connecticut river valley of Ma. Will go with 3 and 4
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Number 6 central MN
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#6 here.
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some 3, some 4
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North Colorado: under 7,000 ft 2-3, in the mountains 5-6
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NW Iowa #6
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Maine....5 & 6
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Northern IL 4 in most places along with a little 1 in some spots
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nw indiana 1-3
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We're at a #6 in Vermont .... 18"+ in most places.
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#1 Open Water. :'( :cookoo:
Shortest season in memory. 56*f yesterday. ???
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Sorry to hear that Gator. I wonder how long before that moves east? ??? :P
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Northeast Wyoming is a #6.
16" last night
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#6 here in N.W. Wisconsin I measured 22 last time out 3 days ago. F150 and ice not even cracking.
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anywhere between 1 and 7.. it literally rained all of January and winter finally came back last night.
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#6 up in my area of Michigan's lower peninsula
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7+ ;D
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#6 SW MN
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Awww you always win Drifter! Pushing 3-4' yet?
7+ ;D
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Awww you always win Drifter! Pushing 3-4' yet?
It was 3' at the beginning of January. ;D
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7 northern MT still making ice.
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Northwest PA, my favorite Lake is a 3 from what I hear. I will know more tomorrow.
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#6 here in northern WY
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1-3 Denver metro and front range
4-6 Colorado high country
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6 eastern UP
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6
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Southeast Nebraska -- 8 to 12 inches of hard ice, and holding. Looking at the forecast, we might even make it to St. Pat's day
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Anything local to me here in Central New Jersey is now pretty much open water - N.NJ might have a few places with some fishable stuff, but it is waning fast
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Adirondacks mountains of NY, some smaller and medium size lakes you can drive a truck on, larger lakes are more suitable for 4 wheelers and snowmobiles, and some they are landing planes!
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down here in SENY anywhere from 1 to 4.... fished yesterday on a lake and had all four categories on the same lake!
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I would second MissoulaFish in saying Montana is all over the spectrum this year!
Nick
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SE Nebraska, Id go with 3 and 4
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1-4, mostly 3.
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#1 thru #4 around here. One res in the area that tends to freeze late, never has. Many lost ice in the recent warm spell. A few at higher elevation are solid and 15" plus.
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More than enough!! Too much for a hand auger!!
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here in SW Iowa, 5-6 in most places
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4 in Deerfield area of MA.
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Over 2ft of ice here in clear Lake, IA!
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Metro Lakes in the Twin Cities is #6. Guys I have talked to for northern MN is pushing #7. Extensions are now your friends there.
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#6 in western Wisconsin drilled 28" over the wkend. ;D
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Close to 30 inches north of Grand Marais.
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NE Hoosier, anywhere from open water to 10"
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6 to 8 inch here
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SW MIch.. 2-3.. 2' of snow last week killed us..
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2-3 in NE Ohio mostly. Some 1. 4 only in one spot...off PIB.
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4 and 5 around iowa now, had a few weeks where you could take a truck out, but not now.
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n.w. missouri. solid 3 on the lakes and light 4 on some of the ponds with a wind break.
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#6 in Southeast South Dakota
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Most lakes here have atleast 14 inches to 20 +inches as of this weeknd
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8-12" where I've been from Southwest NY to the east end of Lake Ontario
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Erie off Western NY, 10-12" of solid ice with wheelers and sleds out.
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Now 24 and growing each day. It has been going below zero here every night for about a month now in nw WI.
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SE Nebraska 3 & 4. Great year!
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Still making it here.
It's a tad frosty this morning. :blink: :blink:
Second cold warning this winter.
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WOW!! That's impressive Drifter!! Nearly 42 degrees here in northern Vermont! :'( Still plenty of ice, but I was looking forward to an actual winter for once. Haven't had over 2 feet of ice on Lake Champlain for over four years now.
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unfortunately, all the lakes i fish are 1-2 right now. southern Idaho got a massive warm front that just... hung around. pretty disappointing to be honest.
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a 10 here in Sask. Canada....oh..there is no 10 on the scale...ok..a big 7. Lots of people having to install their extentions on their augers
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#6 in NW Iowa.
24" on West Okoboji right now.
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24-30"
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I was on 12" in north west Ct. today.
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Entirely too much up here on Lake Simcoe. Had to pull a Colin Kapernick and take a knee to finish the hole today with the manual auger.
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A few days ago, Western Maryland anywhere from 6-12" with about the top third white ice, as you head East/South mostly open water or unsafe ice. We had rain and a couple days of warm weather recently, so things could be worse. We need some cold nights to lock everything back up hopefully by the weekend.
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Wyoming 4-5. 12 inches of windblown ice
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That's a #6 for north central to north east Wyoming. Approximately 17"+ of snow capped ice and still building.
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sw lower central mich 12 inches. 4 of it is white ice.
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We had 15-16" of clear ice 45 min north of Milwaukee yesterday.
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Central Vermont 12" plus couple inches of white ice/snow crust.
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Wauconda, IL 11" good clear ice, 2" frozen slush on top
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25"+ around Minneapolis. Saw a video report from up on lake of the woods of some spots needing multiple extensions where ice sheets stacked up.
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North Central North Dakota this weekend, didn't need my extension, but its close. The motor is down in the snow pile.
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Extension time. Sitting at 33" here
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. 2 hrs. north of Saskatoon Sask.Can. my auger is 44 in. long it
is bottoming out will need a longer extension a very cold winter with shortage of snow
on the ice and fishing has been slow.
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Nearing two extension territory.
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My Shark z51's powerhead was extremely close to the ice, prior to punching through on Lake Minnetonka last Saturday.
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My Shark z51's powerhead was extremely close to the ice, prior to punching through on Lake Minnetonka last Saturday.
It should be a fun march around here!
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My k-drill wont reach anymore without the tip of the drill getting wet. My old jiffy mod 30 is out of retirement with a 6 extension maybe I should have bought the 12 extension. Minus -5*f here this morning making more ice.
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#6 lota ice don't see it melting til June maybe.
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Man it's time for a road trip....lol
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13" just north of Milwaukee
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What ice - going to have to check the lines holding NJ to NY - with the rain we have been having, I'm surprised NJ hasn't floated away into the sunrise
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Local lakes went from 99% open to fully capped and fishable in 7 days. Freekin Crazy!
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Depends in Wi where you are. We had 28" in the area we fished on Lake Poygan on the Winnebago system during Battle On Bago.
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Michigans U.P, roughly 28" in most places.
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After the last weather system bout 26" ice in Sw MN with another 10" - 30" of snow on top of that, mostly blown in snow.
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24 to 26 inches here on Lake Nipissing in Ontario,good until season ends on March 15.
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The waters of Green Bay have 2 feet of ice, "BUT" with all the rain and warm weather the ice is getting soft. The bay has currents and eats away the ice from below. I ice fish often, but have put my equipment away for the season. No casualties yet, but a few have gone thru.
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Entirely too much up here on Lake Simcoe. Had to pull a Colin Kapernick and take a knee to finish the hole today with the manual auger.
. Thats a good one !!
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Lower Michigan, zero boats coming out !!
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Mchenry County Illinois Two local lakes wide open.
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Mchenry County Illinois Two local lakes wide open.
Crook County as well, Anyone know if we still have ice up north?
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They were cutting ice this weekend for the ice carving competition held later this month.
So I can show you that we have this much clear blue ice here in Yellowknife.
Should be good for a couple more months. :)
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We should be good till June as usual. We usually head out the weekend after Memorial Day for breakup lakers.
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donuts ;D
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Got about two trays in my freezer here in SE PA
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24" to 30" on most lakes in Northern WI yet but rivers are starting to open a bit. Post Easter ice fishing is likely.
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40 inches at a local southern Sask. lake.
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24"
Alot of snow though.
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Under all the snow and slush yesterday I had 25 of clear ice on one lake and 16 on another smaller lake. I tried driving my truck out and still it is a no go. I made it out about 100 and got stuck, had to shovel out and back out on my tire tracks. This dam snow is just not going down. But it certainly is protecting the ice from the sun.
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Probably 27" or so out in the western Twin Cities Saturday. accesses are getting chewed up.
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The lake I was on today had 21" of ice.
12" - 14" of that was good clear ice.
Shoreline starting to soften up from the warmer weather.
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Been cold all week with a blizzard today.
We haven't lost any ice and probably grown a few since last week. ;)
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Just got off the ice today. I was finally able to drive the truck out the snow has gone down enough and all the slush is now frozen solid. Had 26 of ice the bottom 21 was clear hard ice. Still about 6 of hard snow on top. Lots of ice fishing left to do around here.