Safe ice

[Jason14icefish]

Any safe ice in mass

[bogtrotter]

Plenty out here in the NW corner of the State (e.g., Savoy, Plainfield).

[Aldomarch3s3]

Yesterday I heard people were ice skating on onota . I will be going sat hopefully it's safe ice for one last chance for a big pike .If not I know puffers is safe for some trout and slime darts .

[pmaloney86]

Plenty out here in the NW corner of the State (e.g., Savoy, Plainfield).

Any idea if the wind blew a lot of the snow off of the ice?  I know down in the southwest we got hammered with snow, about 20 inches.  I'm curious if I should be packing light this weekend bc of a brutal sled pull or if I can load up with the grill and all of the goodies.

[Jschumacher]

What a crazy year for MA. Who would have thought we'd be having safe ice again. I am checking a couple spots around my area that looked promising before the snow. Here's hoping

[BASSQUATCH]

Any idea if the wind blew a lot of the snow off of the ice?  I know down in the southwest we got hammered with snow, about 20 inches.  I'm curious if I should be packing light this weekend bc of a brutal sled pull or if I can load up with the grill and all of the goodies.

parts of NY got 40+ inches along route 90 (I drove through it on Tuesday in the worst part of the storm, SNOWPOCALYPTIC is the only way to describe it!

[bogtrotter]

All I know for sure re the ice in the NW corner of the State is that there was 16 inches or so on Bog Pond in Savoy on 03/05/17 and there was 12 inches of ice on K of C Pond on the Plainfield/Hawley line on 03/12/17. 

Obviously, that was before the big snowstorm on 03/14/17, where I would guesstimate (although it's hard to do due to "drifting") that we received about 16 inches of snow .

Unfortunately, I cannot tell you whether the wind may have blown off a lot of that snow from the Ponds I am thinking of. 

I hopefully will get a chance to do some fishing myself this weekend and could tell you then, but by then, alas, it will be too late to do you any good.

[manitron]

Since I had nothing better to do, I just checked the "mountaintop"trout pond. A lot of the snow has blown off  so there was 6 inches of snow covering 2 inches of soupy slush on top. The ice itself was  8 inches of crap white ice on top with 2-3 inches of black under it. I honestly was surprised how little ice was left. I would say that there are a few high elevation ponds that will be accessible this weekend in the Berkshires  but please use caution. As for skaters on Onota, I would not be surprised but I have never seen one with a chisel yet. Good luck.

[fishermantim]

Any safe ice in mass

That's a very generic question, so how about very generic answer, like "Yes".

[44blackfooted]

plainfield has safe ice just slowwww fishing lol !!!

[KivverRivver]

Safe Ice on March 19, 2017???

[lowaccord66]

Safe Ice on March 19, 2017???

I'll be ice fishing until April easy....

[KivverRivver]

I'll be trout fishing from shore in April easy...

[Gavins1800]

The last of it is in the Berkshires

[BASSQUATCH]

plainfield has safe ice just slowwww fishing lol !!!

Sometimes those slow days on Plainfield produce pb bass 👍.  Like 3/29/08 for instance 🍻

[fishermantim]

I'll be breaking out the kayak ant week now!

[Mr.Bassachusetts]

I'll be breaking out the kayak ant week now!

Yessir kayak time!!! Thinking bout hitting the mouth of the ct river

[protivakid]

Yessir kayak time!!! Thinking bout hitting the mouth of the ct river

That is a sweet shanty in your profile pic.