Author Topic: Ice Out For Iowa Predictions (Read 5039 times)

DPops · « **on:** Feb 16, 2010, 11:41 AM »

Im thinking its going to be one of the latest ice out ever. March 28?

bassrat · « **Reply #1 on:** Feb 16, 2010, 01:06 PM »

up here it averages around the first of april...much later than that and the spring fever gets to be killer anyway.

N3480H · « **Reply #2 on:** Feb 16, 2010, 04:59 PM »

DoubleBurg · « **Reply #3 on:** Feb 16, 2010, 05:18 PM »

2012

I'm going with a quick warm up early April.

doonan · « **Reply #4 on:** Feb 16, 2010, 05:41 PM »

If it warms up quick and there is a lot of melt the outer edge of the ice will be junk in no time. The outlet on storm lake has already busted through and water was going over the dam. Im guessing most people will be done ice fishing by March 24th and the IGL will be done April 2.

Wally Lindner · « **Reply #5 on:** Feb 17, 2010, 04:04 AM »

4th of July, but if we can hit our averages it will be the last week of March.

CrappieBuster · « **Reply #6 on:** Feb 17, 2010, 12:23 PM »

Season usually lasts till mid-late march around here. Almost burying power augers in the pits right now. Lotsa season left boys!

Mr.Seaguar · « **Reply #7 on:** Feb 17, 2010, 01:57 PM »

The 7 day forecast shows no sign of winter slowing down. April is a ways off but I am gonna guess, last day of safe ice at Okoboji is April 10.

Wally Lindner · « **Reply #8 on:** Feb 17, 2010, 07:33 PM »

I'll be on Pikes Point in waders several times before April 10.

CrappieBuster · « **Reply #9 on:** Feb 17, 2010, 08:14 PM »

27 1/2 inches of ice at Clear Lake yet.

Rehtnug185vx · « **Reply #10 on:** Feb 17, 2010, 09:33 PM »

2nd 2012

MidnightRambler · « **Reply #11 on:** Feb 18, 2010, 08:16 AM »

The ice on small ponds and Lake Macbride usually goes out early the second week of March around here.

Unless the ten-day and fifteen-day forecasts for SE Iowa are not just wrong, but totally wrong, we will be ice fishing for at least another three weeks around Iowa City.

I won't guarantee it, but another four weeks of ice-fishing around IC is not out of the question.

Kevin23 · « **Reply #12 on:** Feb 18, 2010, 11:06 AM »

June 2015.

Mr.Seaguar · « **Reply #13 on:** Feb 18, 2010, 01:21 PM »

Quote from: Wally Lindner on Feb 17, 2010, 07:33 PM

I'll be on Pikes Point in waders several times before April 10.

You are gonna wear waders on the ice? Okay but you are gonna get some funny looks.

Hawkize · « **Reply #14 on:** Feb 18, 2010, 07:02 PM »

booooooooooooo ice out thread boooooooooooooooo

Rehtnug185vx · « **Reply #15 on:** Feb 18, 2010, 09:39 PM »

ya thats what i first thought when i read the post must be some burned out folks already this season

TheBird55 · « **Reply #16 on:** Feb 18, 2010, 10:28 PM »

so i shouldn't be worried about coming down to okoboji sprit lake area to fish second weekend in march?? hoping to get down there then if the snow geese arn't moving through yet

Rehtnug185vx · « **Reply #17 on:** Mar 01, 2010, 09:34 PM »

will this warm weather put a dent into the season?

rjbreese · « **Reply #18 on:** Mar 02, 2010, 10:56 AM »

im gonna miss the ice this year it was a great year for me, i hope this weekends higher temps and the forcasted rain doesnt speed up the ice melting but im afraid it will, i would say late march early april???

CrappieBuster · « **Reply #19 on:** Mar 02, 2010, 11:47 AM »

Rain should melt the snow. And the lows at night will refreeze that slop into more ice. I hope!

20+ on most area pits around here and 25+ almost 30 in spots at Clear Lake. Fishin gets hot this time of year.

MidnightRambler · « **Reply #20 on:** Mar 03, 2010, 07:58 AM »

I dug through my fishing records from back to the winter of 2002-3 (yup, I actually keep track of these things): the last times I fished on the ice in Johnson County were March 7 (2003), February 16 ('04), February 20 ('05), February 26 ('06), March 4 ('07), March 12 ('08), and March 4 ('09).

Those are the last times I fished on ice down here, not necessarily when the ice went out; some of those years, especially the ones where I last hit hardwater in February, were years I probably didn't have time to get out on late ice.

On March 14, 2006, one of the Johnson County ponds I fish through the ice was completely open: I didn't write things like this down before that year.

On March 29, 2007, I fished open water on Macbride; I did not write down, and probably didn't know, exactly when the ice went out that year.

On March 29, 2008, Macbride was mostly open, but there was still some mushy ice, according to my notes.

On March 6, 2009, I wrote that the ice was gone in Johnson County--two days after fishing on what I wrote was bad ice on a small pond.

As of today, we still have plenty of good ice around Iowa City, so it is already not an early ice-out year. Based on the ten and fifteen-day forecasts, we are going to start losing ice this coming weekend, but unless the rain being forecast for Saturday is heavy, the next week still looks good, with a little caution.

My guess now as to the end of ice-fishing around here is March 11, based on the forecast, which calls for a lot of rain next week. If we get less rain than predicted, we'll get a few more days beyond the 11th.

So, ice out will be a little later than normal around IC, but not as late as I was hoping.

shawner30 · « **Reply #21 on:** Mar 03, 2010, 11:42 AM »

Great info! How much ice is on Macbride now? Anything biting?

walleyewinder23 · « **Reply #22 on:** Mar 03, 2010, 04:29 PM »

Hey! Look at the brighter side of things. When the ice melts, we can go out on boats, fish for crappie and walleye bite should be good!

esox_magnum · « **Reply #23 on:** Mar 03, 2010, 04:55 PM »

No 40 even forcasted yet here, it will be awhile yet. I'm guessing April 13th at the earliest. Was -2 here this morn but rebounded nicely to about 32.

MidnightRambler · « **Reply #24 on:** Mar 03, 2010, 07:05 PM »

Quote from: shawner30 on Mar 03, 2010, 11:42 AM

Great info! How much ice is on Macbride now? Anything biting?

I haven't been on Macbride since January, so I don't have any first-hand info.

What I've heard, and the reason I haven't fish Macbride in almost two months, is that it is a slooooow bite, for the most part. The ice is fine as of now, I'd bet, but like I said if the weather forecast is right it will probably not be good in a week if we get a lot of rain.

ddog · « **Reply #25 on:** Mar 08, 2010, 10:06 PM »

Quote from: doonan on Feb 16, 2010, 05:41 PM

If it warms up quick and there is a lot of melt the outer edge of the ice will be junk in no time. The outlet on storm lake has already busted through and water was going over the dam. Im guessing most people will be done ice fishing by March 24th and the IGL will be done April 2.

what is igl

esox_magnum · « **Reply #26 on:** Mar 08, 2010, 10:31 PM »

Iowa Great Lakes, West Okoboji, East Okoboji, Minnewasta, Upper/Lower Gar, and Big Spirit.

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