will this snow hurt ice

[bendix.iceman]

South bend area 15+ inches of snow will that do some damage to the ice??

[Stinkybaits]

Nah ice is fine. Go out drill thousands of holes water will soak right up and you'll have another 6 inches of snow ice in no time.

[ftwwalleye]

Getting out this morning. Will let you know. I imagine it will be a little wet today but can't imagine the ice got killed too bad. Most places I was at last week we're 8 inches plus. Got pretty cold again last night. But I've also read about guys finding soft spots since the storm. Anyone else have a reports

[river_scum]

lets just hope it melts off soon.  snow will insulate the ice and the lake will melt it gradually underneath. we have been out in 0* weather and had water and slush under the snow still!   

[Fishslayer81]

The good news is the snow was wet and heavy...it appears to have sunk the ice and flooded it. There was spots where it was all froze and others where I was breaking thru the crust layer. Yes I too hit a bad spot where there was a old hole that only had about 2" of clear ice in a 2ft radius. Ice was 8-10" everywhere else.

[marmooskapaul]

Basically didn't get any in East Central Indiana. What little snow/slush we did get should make for easier walking and better fishing. It was easy walking before, but very slick.
Paul

[TeacherPreacher]

You can have what we got here in NW Indiana. I measured 18" on the flat yesterday in my front yard in Hobart.
Agree with what was already stated about ice. Sure will be a bugger trudging thru that stuff!
Teach

[tschneid]

I am really worried about the ice. Made it out for a few hours yesterday and it was a horrible walk. Still plenty of ice (8-10") but 6" of water/slush under the snow and I avoided any sketchy areas. It was not cold enough to freeze any of it so it was a wet boot type of day. I just hope these cold temps are cold enough to reach down into this snow and tighten some things up otherwise I may stay off the ice for a while.

Only had a few fish come in but all were aggressive (which is a nice change of pace).

[revice]

I was out yesterday and it was sloppy, however the place a scraped off had water at first then was frozen solid by the time I left. Good news is the fish are still biting!
Be Safe....

[walleyedan]

5" south of Ft. Wayne.  Lots of slush before the actual snow started to stick.  It was a good day fishing for me anyway.

[Gillhunter97]

Well it wont help thats for sure lol

[Stinkybaits]

Update. Ice is fine and I'm sore from all the snow today! Pounded the fish still so they don't care yet.