This year is the first time in a long time, I don’t even remember when I wasn’t fishing on January 1 !! I have fished twice (shaky ice) this year along the state line. When I was a kid we fished every New Year’s Eve on at least 6” ice, now seems don’t get a lot more than that for the whole year. When was the last time on the first of January that you were not on decent ice ?? Gonna head north in a week or so !!