Author Topic: Champlain Ice (Read 8202 times)

vermonner · « **Reply #30 on:** Feb 05, 2008, 09:48 PM »

Careful with those trucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An 80 year old ice fisherman was finally found yesterday, dead, in his truck underwater after missing for a few days. No joke. We've had freeze/thaw/freeze/thaw and we're in the middle of another freeze/thaw. Check with Gilly before driving on there may only be 8" of ice this w/e. Our ice has been spotty this year

Here's the link
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?s=7814431
Let's we all pray for his family

dirtface · « **Reply #31 on:** Feb 05, 2008, 10:06 PM »

thanks.
i heard. prayers to his family, gilly said we be allrite but its his lively hood. so i wanted to hear from sum1 without a vested interest! not that i think gilly would put us in an unsafe situation

wilec · « **Reply #32 on:** Feb 06, 2008, 05:47 AM »

I drove by Pontousic Lake in Pittsfield Mass on Sunday and there were 3 trucks all parked within 25 feet of each other!! how the hell they weren't in the water i don't know. I don't think they have balls I think they're either crazy or stupid.

Drakeman70 · « **Reply #33 on:** Feb 06, 2008, 05:53 AM »

I was fishing Missisquoi Bay Sunday and there were trucks all over the ice. Where we were fishing there was 12 to 13 inches. As you head out towards the border and the Highrocks the ice went down to 10 to 12 inches. We will be pulling out trailer out there for the derby as well.

dirtface · « **Reply #34 on:** Feb 06, 2008, 02:52 PM »

thanks !good luck. we'be there friday morning

BigG3206 · « **Reply #35 on:** Feb 06, 2008, 03:46 PM »

Drakeman-

How do you get out onto Missisquoi?

dirtface · « **Reply #36 on:** Feb 06, 2008, 04:27 PM »

across the st from gillys store to the boat ramp. he usually builds a wood bridge 2 get out

Drakeman70 · « **Reply #37 on:** Feb 06, 2008, 06:56 PM »

No bridge needed this year at least on sunday. Pressure crack was noware to be seen (which is why he builds the bridge inorder to get over it safely). There is a boat lauch just down the road where you can get on. We will have the GMRS or FRS radios out so if you have one give a shout on channel 7.

dirtface · « **Reply #38 on:** Feb 07, 2008, 04:39 PM »

no radios.but we'll be the 1s with the campsite all lite up at night,ull see us.

BigG3206 · « **Reply #39 on:** Feb 08, 2008, 03:47 PM »

Have you guys been getting the rain like we have down here? The ice has pulled off the shore quite a bit on my local waters.

Fish Farmer · « **Reply #40 on:** Feb 08, 2008, 05:19 PM »

We got a good dumping of snow in the north/central part of Vermont. More snow than we got in all of January. It's going to be sloppy on the ice this weekend.

BigG3206 · « **Reply #41 on:** Feb 08, 2008, 05:28 PM »

I'm headed up next weekend so maybe some of that snow will blow away

vticefisherman · « **Reply #42 on:** Feb 11, 2008, 02:20 PM »

any ice on vantines by where the ferris runs through? it'd be nice if anybody knew.

fishstalker · « **Reply #43 on:** Feb 11, 2008, 02:21 PM »

If your talking the grand isle ferry, its wideeeee open H2O as far north as you can see.

vticefisherman · « **Reply #44 on:** Feb 11, 2008, 06:09 PM »

yut, thats what im talking about. i figured it would be. last year had some good ice, i chased a bucket for like 1 mile on it, in 50 mph winds. such an idiot! haha

fishstalker · « **Reply #45 on:** Feb 12, 2008, 11:21 AM »

HAHA! if you had fish in that bucket you wouldn't have had that problem

vticefisherman · « **Reply #46 on:** Feb 12, 2008, 02:03 PM »

haha, believe it or not, i did have a few. i sold a whole bucket for gas money, so i returned, and i had about 10 fish in it, and the wind was so bad, it just took off when i stood up to put another one in. it sucked balls.

BigG3206 · « **Reply #47 on:** Feb 12, 2008, 03:52 PM »

How much snow are you guys expecting up there tonight?

whitetail05401 · « **Reply #48 on:** Feb 12, 2008, 03:59 PM »

8 to 12 heavy wet crap again.....jim s

vticefisherman · « **Reply #49 on:** Feb 12, 2008, 04:59 PM »

8 to 12 tonight, like said before, of that wet crappy garbage, and then 2 to 4 more tomorrow(wednesday)...and possibly rain, then freezing rain, then snow again. then on saturday, even more. global warming by a$$hole.

BigG3206 · « **Reply #50 on:** Feb 12, 2008, 06:23 PM »

Man it's gonna s@#k on the ice this weekend with all that snow. Is there tons of snow already on the Champlain?

Sasquatch · « **Reply #51 on:** Feb 15, 2008, 11:52 AM »

How much is on it?

TRT · « **Reply #52 on:** Feb 16, 2008, 07:27 PM »

Hey Guys,

Gezzah and I fished Basin harbor area today an had no snow on the ice.
I live in Central VT and could not believe the difference in the amount
of snow from home to Vergennes area. We had 8-10 inches of ice
close to shore. Lake frozen over around the Palisades but we did not
walk way off shore. My guess is 4-500 yards from shore the ice becomes
sketchy, did not like the color. Open water roughly 4-5 miles north
of Basin Harbor.

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