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Alaska => Ice Fishing Alaska => Topic started by: fishermanjake on Dec 05, 2003, 05:15 AM

Title: Ice Thickness
Post by: fishermanjake on Dec 05, 2003, 05:15 AM
Anyone been down on the Kenai peninsula at all this winter?  And if you have do you have. any idea on how the big lakes are freezing up (skilac, kenai, and hidden)? I'll post this on the AK board but this gives a quicker answer ;D
Title: Re:Ice Thickness
Post by: fishermanjake on Dec 08, 2003, 07:04 PM
well my dad called me and said there was no ice on skilak or kenai.  hard to believe with all the cold days they had :(
Title: Re:Ice Thickness
Post by: Barleydog on Dec 08, 2003, 08:02 PM
Skilak had duck hunters on it a couple weeks ago.  Some of the ponds locally are "iffy", ran across one that had a moose fall through it, didn't look as though it came up either ???  3 inches of ice covered with 4 inches of water, covered by 1 inch of ice, covered by 2 ft. of snow!  DANGEROUS stuff...
Title: Re:Ice Thickness
Post by: fishermanjake on Dec 10, 2003, 01:05 AM
sounds like it could be, my dad has been taking my little brothers out on the mid-peninsula lakes and they have a foot of good ice on them, it does stay a bit warmer towards the mountains though.  I have been wishin i was fishing on those kenai system lakes for the past four years...boy it was good 1999-2000 winter.  Christmas break is the only time i go back and can fish it.  only been back twice since that year, year before last i believe...then it warmed up and i couldn't go back. :(  its such a productive lake its a shame its not froze....guess i'll just have to go by the tanana now :D