Mississippi River Backwaters Ice Reports?

[crazy4crappie]

Has any ventured out onto any of the backwaters? If so, how much ice is there?

[Qceskimo]

Checked it out the other day.  It's not safe.  Open water on the shore, and the current is coming through the Wapsi backwaters.  Checked out rock creek and the camanche harbor

[Kevin23]

Checked it out the other day.  It's not safe.  Open water on the shore, and the current is coming through the Wapsi backwaters.  Checked out rock creek and the camanche harbor

How much ice was at rock creek?

[waterfowler04]

Over a foot of ice on backwater in savanna. River dropping like crazy right now.

[Kevin23]

How much ice was at rock creek?

Ill answer my own question. Ive been fishing rock creek park all week, ice is 8-9" and frozen solid at shore (or at least was yesterday). Fishing absolutely sucks, but if 8-9" is unsafe then I dont know what to think.

[Huntindave]

Checked it out the other day.  It's not safe.  Open water on the shore, and the current is coming through the Wapsi backwaters.  Checked out rock creek and the camanche harbor

Ill answer my own question. Ive been fishing rock creek park all week, ice is 8-9" and frozen solid at shore (or at least was yesterday). Fishing absolutely sucks, but if 8-9" is unsafe then I dont know what to think.

Pretty obvious why the variance in reports, you guys did not drill holes in the same exact area.   As an example, where I fished the Mississippi backwaters this weekend, I found as little as three inches and as much as 20 inches of ice, all within 100 yards of each other.  My report could be worded either way and be correct.

Any one fishing back water areas needs to know that ice thickness is not a guaranteed thing and not uniform in thickness over any given area.

[Kevin23]

Pretty obvious why the variance in reports, you guys did not drill holes in the same exact area.   As an example, where I fished the Mississippi backwaters this weekend, I found as little as three inches and as much as 20 inches of ice, all within 100 yards of each other.  My report could be worded either way and be correct.

Any one fishing back water areas needs to know that ice thickness is not a guaranteed thing and not uniform in thickness over any given area.

I fishes the same place everyone else fishes. The slough is 50 yards wide and 200 yards long. There was 11 trucks worth of guys on sat, and 9 when I left on sunday. There was no place he could have drilled where he wasn't within 50 yards of someone fishing. Unless he just drove by the open water slough that stays open almost year around, figured it was all like that, and left.

[Huntindave]

Kevin,
Well there you have it, two different areas.  You just said there is another slough which has ice at least some of the time.   Maybe that is the area he wanted to fish. 

[squ1rr31_]

Easy. I know the ice is going bye bye, but there's no need to start getting heated.