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Wyoming => Ice Fishing Wyoming => Topic started by: WYOBEAR on Feb 17, 2019, 07:58 AM
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CAUTION DIRTY ICE!! I fished Seminoe on the West side yesterday and found lots of blow sand and rocks throughout the ice no matter where you went. Anyone with a shaver auger is wasting you time and money. After 25 holes your blades look like you took a grinder to them. Couple that with 30+ mph winds and white-out conditions. That is a b***h kitty of a lake to fish..
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yeah, with the wind and all the blow sand, it will
cost you some blades, I learned 45 years ago to
take extra when you go to seminoe
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Pathfinder seems to have the same kind of ice in the winter.
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I'm not sure how it dos it but at seminoe, it seams to
layer the sand in the ice, and it is tuff on blades.
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I was looking at that also J! The rocks were all the way through the Ice from top to bottom. Crazy!
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I used to bring an axe and chop through as far as I could or felt I needed then hand auger from there stopped doing that when I got gas powered.
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Pathfinder seems to have the same kind of ice in the winter.
I had this happen to me years ago at Pathfinder. I had my Niles with me for a back up. ( traveling from Gilllette, I would always pack it with me ).
It went dull in a couple of inches too....
First time that I had experienced this. I finally burned a couple of hole with the jiffy and fished those holes the rest of the weekend.
A few years ago, Fontenelle had very little snow on it and the wind was terrible that winter. The same senero, sand was blown on the ice.
I took my spud bar and chipped down a couple of inches, then drilled my hole. I didn't have any issues that year doing this... :tipup:
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