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************Saturday report*********Snow was DEEP.... Luckily we did not have any slush underneath like others are reporting! Was tough going with the ATV but we made it, it took sometime to break trail but once we did that it was easy going the rest of the day. Slow fishing but a beautiful day out on the ice non the less. 18" of solid ice under the house BUT I am worried about the launch breaking up... Unfortunately it looks like Saturday the house is coming off can't risk it... Hopefully the snow melts/packs down and moving houses is not to much of an issue!
I understand taking off your shack but the launch usually isn't an issue. There isn't much water right there at the beach. You can go quite a ways and it's only a foot or two. Winters not over yet. Once the snow settles it'll be great out there
Next weekend's derby plans have changed... I was hoping to get onto Winni but have no desire to try and walk to where I like to go off 19...
many shacks left out there? my buddy has one next to whortleberry island. But its heavy and not very agile in the deep stuff, please post ive conditions he thinks its gonna go through before he can get it off. And does anybody know if its legal to pull it over to the island for the season I doubt it but worth a shot.
There are still a bunch of shacks out there. Not knowing where exactly your buddies shack is, I highly doubt it'd go through as there is lot of ice over there still. He should have pulled it off this morning, I was on the snowmobile this morning and it was easy going! All the slush froze and it was nice! Later in the week looks worse, I'd imagine by the weekend it's all going to be a mess again. The launch has the 10ft hole open again. Easy to get around, but I'd imagine a pain to get a hard side out. I would highly doubt you could pull a shack onto the island.
Yikes!!!!! Saturday was a mad house... BUT the fishing was good after we got the "hard work" done! My self as well as my buddy and brother we're on the launch @ 5am (first ones there) which is littered with hard sides minimal parking... The launch is garbage busted up slushy and 2ft of water 200 yards out. We made it out to the houses slushy and messy a lot of water as well as black holes everywhere (old holes are opening up) very sketchy.. Took us about 2 hours to get the houses to the launch and on the trailers!!! What a mess! By 9am the parking lot was loaded with fellow fisherman with the same idea the water was swirling holes and pooling everywhere total slush feet, we managed a few lakers and a solid white perch that nailed a laker jig without hesitation! There was 1 house left off chases point, "white" believe they are from MA and windham they never showed and it is half in the drink attempted to get close and cut it free to get it to high ground but 2ft of slush and water around it made it impossible.. .No number or info on the house to call? And they never showed all day, not good! Stay safe folks!
Glad you got your house off... Not surprised with the guys from mass. They almost lost one there last year. They only show up for the derby. If it goes in maybe they will learn their lesson. They tend to show up on Sundays so maybe they came today if they were smart
Glad you got the shacks off safe and sound. Did you leave them at the lot or pack them back home?
There is still one house left..right in front of my camp..ghost town yesterday as the wind sounded like a train coming into the bay
Are you off chases point? Is the house a white one half in the drink?
I believe he's in the bay itself not out past the islands
