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Title: There's Still Some Ice Out There If You Look
Post by: Drifter_016 on May 15, 2017, 05:33 PM: My buddy that lives North of me posted this pic this morning.
Still 4+ feet of the hard stuff on Great Bear Lake. ;D

(https://scontent.fybz2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18486260_10158862782625294_7714037461984721834_n.jpg?oh=4af1cd9cb33eda647737ec4599dca363&oe=597674BC)
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Post by: filetandrelease on May 15, 2017, 07:07 PM: Great pic thanks for sharing ,
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Post by: SpitzoMT on May 15, 2017, 10:47 PM: Great pic.....Thanx for making me jealous Drifter !! ;)2
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Post by: joedevera on May 16, 2017, 12:33 AM: How long of a season do you guys typically have up there?
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Post by: OldSailor on May 16, 2017, 05:59 AM: How much on Great Slave Lake?? Starting to thin out??
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Post by: Drifter_016 on May 16, 2017, 09:35 AM: Quote from: OldSailor on May 16, 2017, 05:59 AM
How much on Great Slave Lake?? Starting to thin out??

Starting to. The pressure cracks have been open for a couple of weeks and the shore is starting to go.
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Post by: iowapackfan on May 16, 2017, 11:40 AM: :o :o my gawd I'm jealous
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Post by: missoulafish on May 16, 2017, 04:36 PM: >:( {{{Stomps foot}}}
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Post by: trundog on May 17, 2017, 06:47 AM: Looks like a good place for witness protection to relocate me to
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Post by: Chris338378 on May 17, 2017, 09:00 AM: That place is heaven on earth. Does the ice ever melt away totally there?
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Post by: Flint on May 17, 2017, 07:15 PM: What kind of fish you catching there?
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Post by: Drifter_016 on May 17, 2017, 08:27 PM: Quote from: Chris338378 on May 17, 2017, 09:00 AM
That place is heaven on earth. Does the ice ever melt away totally there?

Sure does.
Beginning of July it usually goes out.
Have had some ice linger until the 3rd week one year.
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Post by: Drifter_016 on May 17, 2017, 08:28 PM: Quote from: Flint on May 17, 2017, 07:15 PM
What kind of fish you catching there?

World record lake trout and grayling as well as some pike and whitefish.
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Post by: ICE WANDERER on May 18, 2017, 02:27 AM: If only I could get my wife to move, I'd be there in a heart beat! ;D

IW
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Post by: Chris338378 on May 18, 2017, 10:02 AM: Quote from: ICE WANDERER on May 18, 2017, 02:27 AM

If only I could get my wife to move, I'd be there in a heart beat! ;D

IW

X2
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Post by: onestring on May 18, 2017, 02:00 PM: 90 here in pa didnt have much ice this year if I lived in a place that had ice 7 8 months out of the year I would be living in the hut unemployed its tuff goin to work now if we had ice more than half the year it would be a wrap keep posting pictures like to see a wr laker
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Post by: SpitzoMT on May 18, 2017, 03:56 PM: Quote from: ICE WANDERER on May 18, 2017, 02:27 AM

If only I could get my wife to move, I'd be there in a heart beat! ;D

IW

X3 to this !!