[Downthehole]

All,

Attached are a couple of pics taken from my back deck at 7:45 this morning. Icing happened over night as we had soft water up until going to bed. It's getting close!

I'll update with progress this week (since I now live 50' from the lake). If the weather stays like this I may be able to drill a hole later in the week.

Andy

[bucknuts]

Sweet can we park at your place?

[Downthehole]

Sweet can we park at your place?

Shouldn't be a problem....

[Green Pea]

That's the way to start the morning right there. Bring on the ice.

[30inthabucket]

Keep us up to date on the thickness Andy. Got a report tonight from a buddy there's a little over an inch at the 1st pull off on long island. Got a ways to go but at least it's freezing.
And we were talking the other day that you should just host an ifo boarding house. Lol. Save me some driving.

[Downthehole]

I drove around the lake yesterday and the main lake area is wide open. Channels are frozen hovwever there were signs of snow melt in the center of some of them. The North end of the Lake has the most ice. Overnight, we had a light snow which has covered what ice there is. According to the forecast it’s going to warm up into the 30’s/40’s from Saturday onwards so I don’t see safe ice being a reality this weekend The longer range forecast is calling for an arctic blast late next week so we may get safe ice before Christmas.

I’ll post updates regularly on the condition of the lake....

[quackpot]

Thanks for the update Andy

[Ntoiceman36]

Keep us posted and I'm looking forward to catching some Indian lake saugeyes.

[30inthabucket]

Thanks Andy.

[bucknuts]

Thanks man!

[bucknuts]

FYI...got a report there are guys fishing long Island this evening 2.5 to 3" of ice...crazy I know. I'm planning on going thursday early am. I have a local hookup that's going to show me some new spots hopefully!

[Bryan78]

I've never had a problem on 2". It's sketchy but I've never felt unsafe on that much ice and I've fished on less which was dumb lol. 3" is plenty unless you're like 800 pounds. Be safe everyone.

[slabslayer]

I've never had a problem on 2". It's sketchy but I've never felt unsafe on that much ice and I've fished on less which was dumb lol. 3" is plenty unless you're like 800 pounds. Be safe everyone.

Especially if it’s clear, Black Ice. I’ve been through on 3” of milky ice, but good clear Ice is great all day Long.  PS, I’m only 190 pounds.

[Downthehole]

All,

Drove around the lake again today - here's some updates; The main lake is locked as far as the eye can see. Channels at the south side are now locked. There were guys fishing at the 1st pull off on Long Island but not very far out - they were at the end of the pocket we usually use to get across to the island. At the 2nd pull off I was surprised to see open water on both sides of the peninsula. On the side between Long Island and O'Connors it looked like the aerators have kept the water soft along the Northern side (left as you look towards O'Connors from the bridge). There is a decent area of ice on the right side. I saw a report that there's 2-1/2" of ice at Long Island but it only goes out 100yds which makes sense from what I saw today. My take is that the ice is still not safe, for me anyway, and most of the areas I know to fish are still inaccessible.

Andy

[Ntoiceman36]

Thanks Andy, keep the reports coming!