The girls indicated that they may want to go out on the ice but only if we have to drive at most 10 minutes.
So I went to a local pond to check the ice. Got to the lake at 4pm. Just accidentally I had a jig rod and the flasher in the car with the chisel and auger
Good news is that there were a solid 7 inches of ice - 4 nice black ice on the bottom with 3 inches of slush-ice on top.
I made use of that 30 minutes until sunset and was able to get onto a school of bluegills. The flasher was a great help, they were coming up fast.
They seemed to be around 7 inches as well, here are two
I also met some guys on dirt bikes who were riding around for 30 minutes and when I was leaving they asked me how much ice there was. Maybe I do not understand causality well enough but this seemed backwards to me.
Now I just hope that the ladies won't change their mind and we really go back tomorrow.
Here is a picture of the beautiful sunset
