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Thermometer is supposed to drop below freezing Fri and stay below all weekend in my neck of the woods. I say let it come!!!
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Read the articles.....there goes more money to the tackle shop.....those new acme hyper glides look sweet to try
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No ice this year.....maybe the end of January for a weekHold your tongueI'll take 45 degrees all winter long
I don't want to upset any hard-core ice fishermen but I'm burning my copy of In- fisherman for luck.
When's that ice arriving , any guesses when we'll be ice fishing
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And the ice will be north of Middletown like the snow
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Alo
Alot... further....like Sidney
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Tom, Carl and I will drag you out on the ice this year man. Carl's got a shanty and a heater, I'm sure he'll let ya keep your toes warm in it!
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Well if we do get it.I Hope we get it. Nothing worst then tweener ice!! You know just enough to not be safe to walk onbut keep u from fishing. Luckily the first snap,the deeper lakes and most rivers will survive.... Ill admit im not ready for it yet.but will take ways given to me
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Right on the money saugeyefisher, nothing worse than a long period of coldish temps with unsafe ice and not being able to find open water. I'll ice fish when forced to do so but ---- not exactly my favorite past time. Maybe I need a flip-over and a buddy heater and a 2 quart thermos.
Good luck and Good fish
and a 2 quart thermos.Good luck and Good fish
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Yeah, that id be good, I've been looking for a excuse to buy a little buddy heater, one question do you guys bring floaties just in case?
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Sorry there hard water guys, don't mean to be the bearer of bad forecasts but saw the following report today ....
Leave the ice skates and fish shanties; ready the shovels and snowblowers. That could be the forecast for this winter, based on unusually high surface water temperatures on the Great Lakes.
Each of the lakes — Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario — as well as lake St. Clair, all have temperatures well up from this time last year. When compared to long-term averages, the surface water warmth now is even more striking: Lake Michigan, for example, is above its long-term average temperature by 3.81 degrees Fahrenheit. (Think about how long, and how much energy, it takes to warm that volume of water that many degrees.) Lake Erie is 3.4 degrees above average. The last time the Great Lakes were warmer than this on Dec. 1 was in 2000 — and that’s the only year they’ve been warmer than this, going back to 1994.
Relatively warm surface water at this time of year has historically meant Great Lakes that remained mostly ice free for the entire winter, said George Leshkevich, a physical scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. The laboratory uses data gathered from several Earth-orbiting satellites, offering a more lake-wide assessment of the Great Lakes than isolated data from buoys.
enough ice for the fish to know to spawn, that's all we need of course, I won't be thrilled shoveling the extra couple feet we get because of the open water but I'll make the sacrifice if it's warmer than usual ...
Leave the ice skates and fish shanties; ready the shovels and snowblowers. That could be the forecast for this winter, based on unusually high surface water temperatures on the Great Lakes.
Each of the lakes — Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario — as well as lake St. Clair, all have temperatures well up from this time last year. When compared to long-term averages, the surface water warmth now is even more striking: Lake Michigan, for example, is above its long-term average temperature by 3.81 degrees Fahrenheit. (Think about how long, and how much energy, it takes to warm that volume of water that many degrees.) Lake Erie is 3.4 degrees above average. The last time the Great Lakes were warmer than this on Dec. 1 was in 2000 — and that’s the only year they’ve been warmer than this, going back to 1994.
Relatively warm surface water at this time of year has historically meant Great Lakes that remained mostly ice free for the entire winter, said George Leshkevich, a physical scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. The laboratory uses data gathered from several Earth-orbiting satellites, offering a more lake-wide assessment of the Great Lakes than isolated data from buoys.
enough ice for the fish to know to spawn, that's all we need
of course, I won't be thrilled shoveling the extra couple feet we get because of the open water but I'll make the sacrifice if it's warmer than usual ...
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Floaties aren't required, but I won't stop ya. I here it's the newest trend to hit the waters since nightcrawlers!
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But I spent all summer building a weed whacker/saw blade motor to rig on my yak just for EW!
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SOMEONE WILL PAYFloaties aren't required, but I won't stop ya. I here it's the newest trend to hit the waters since nightcrawlers!
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So......stuff like floaties, adult diapers and 1st will and testament forms are all standard ice fishing requirements? I just wanna be prepared
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Also remember to bring a sac of taters on early ice so you can "spud" the ice.
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