No one ice fishing?

[AB14]

Just checking in to see what's going on. I'm in Michigan, and we haven't had ice here on Saginaw Bay all year until now. We got a good snow fall over the weekend, about 8in. Cold weather is finally here, and looks like it will stay for about a week so maybe we'll get enough ice to get out on. I'm hoping so. How are the rest of you doing as far as ice fishing goes?

 

[Stand Up]

There's lots of ice and fishing in Sunny Alberta. This fellow fishes on Cold Lake which is slightly north of the center of Alberta. He catches great fish and shows how he does it. Have a watch and tell me what you think.

 

[hardwatergrampa]

nice fish ido soso with tubes

 

[newyota]

No ice in Pa.

 

[DoOver]

Gonna get colder here in the Catskills of NY.
Should be fishable ice then.

 

[Stand Up]

I'll be volunteering at a "Kids Can Fish" event on Feb. 18/23. I'll be drilling holes in the ice. We need 16 rows with 25 holes in each row and the holes will be 10 feet apart. maybe 300 + kids will be on the ice. I'll take some pictures and post them up.

 

[Ray Clark]

Plenty of ice in the Omaha area. We had a severe round of cold weather in December that set it all up.

I'm not really an ice fisherman, but Son in law has gear and shelter, so that made a big difference. Ice was about 10" thick on the local lake we fished a couple Sundays ago. I caught one crappie, so I didn't get skunked, and I did have fun.

Will I go again? Maybe. I'm not going to gear up for it, though I might buy a rod so that I can fish my own stuff. Never pass up a chance to buy fishing gear, right?

 

[Basstrackertx17]

Although there was ice further north I didn’t feel safe going on the ice this year.
When you hear reports of people break through on the shore line and others going through
it wasn’t worth it for me.
There’s always next year..

 

[Displacedmike]

Alberta.

 

[Stand Up]

Alberta.

Yep. Good and frozen in central alberta. 30" of ice last weekend at the Kid's Can Fish event. About 300 people and mostly children came out to fish. The weather was great for ice fishing.

 

[Maleko19]

Just checking in to see what's going on. I'm in Michigan, and we haven't had ice here on Saginaw Bay all year until now. We got a good snow fall over the weekend, about 8in. Cold weather is finally here, and looks like it will stay for about a week so maybe we'll get enough ice to get out on. I'm hoping so. How are the rest of you doing as far as ice fishing goes?

We've had a lot of snow up here at Black Lake! Ice hasn't been as good as previous years. There are maybe 5 shanties on the lake...which isn't normal.