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Ice Fishing => General Discussion => Topic started by: HookBender on December 08, 2016, 12:26:47 PM

Title: First Ice!!
Post by: HookBender on December 08, 2016, 12:26:47 PM
in Columbus, all the puddles I passed on my way to work this morning were iced over! Was half tempted to break out the auger!
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Post by: Tin Guppy on December 08, 2016, 01:20:57 PM
I had a skim ice on my pond last night
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Post by: 30inthabucket on December 08, 2016, 06:39:13 PM
I spent a couple hours scraping ice off a house foundation yesterday morning. And all the ice was still there today. And my buddy's pond had ice on it. It's looking good. I hope so. If I have to work in this weather I at least want to spend my weekends drilling holes.
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Post by: Downthehole on December 08, 2016, 09:24:11 PM
Ice on the banks of O'Shaughnessy Reservoir as I drove to work today....it's starting to happen.....
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Post by: bruce136 on December 09, 2016, 04:48:45 AM
Just a reminder...
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Post by: toadfish on December 09, 2016, 05:15:04 AM
Grand Lake St. Marys is starting to get skim ice.  Some ponds along the highway were open and others had a skim this AM at early dark thirty in the morning.  Getting my stuff ready so you can blame me if safe ice does not happen.
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Post by: Just reeleyez on December 09, 2016, 04:49:07 PM
Saw some pictures of Indian earlier and some of the canals are froze over. Calm wind and continued cold temps and I'll be spudding next weekend!!
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Post by: Tin Guppy on December 09, 2016, 07:07:39 PM
About a 1.5" on my pond.
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Post by: IceKing14 on December 09, 2016, 11:04:34 PM
Long island at Indian Lake had a skim on it holding snow!!  Its getting closer fellas!
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Post by: g on December 10, 2016, 09:14:55 AM
I'm with you Josh. Hope Indian will be fishable next weekend.
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Post by: quackpot on December 10, 2016, 03:15:25 PM
Looking good when I did a drive by this morning.
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Post by: Downthehole on December 10, 2016, 04:24:58 PM
Local pond has 3/4" on it....
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Post by: handymanjeff on December 11, 2016, 07:54:22 AM
Pond locked up Friday. Don't need 8" of snow they are calling for today!!! With high of 12 degrees on Thursday and low of 0 should be on ice next weekend.  Toss up between trying to get my 3rd deer or fish: maybe both. ;)
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Post by: Fishin 2 on December 11, 2016, 09:30:13 AM
Well Jeff, you could always fish a pond and carry gun and pole , It would be awesome setting there catching a few gills and pop a big doe.Lord knows I'm ready too..
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Post by: 30inthabucket on December 11, 2016, 12:27:06 PM
Nice to see someone else shares my dilemma Jeff. Next weekend looks promising but I need another deer for the freezer too. May have to hunt sat morning and then hit the ice for the afternoon.
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Post by: Tin Guppy on December 11, 2016, 05:52:37 PM
I just drove by Kiser and there was ice on the east side and a long the north side.  :D
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Post by: bruce136 on December 11, 2016, 07:17:23 PM
Just watched a video from Loramie on Facebook. It said the whole lake is covered. Looked like  almost an inch of ice where he checked. Should be fishable by the middle of the week
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Post by: firemedic17 on December 12, 2016, 11:37:57 AM
checked indian a hour ago, rain mix last nite did rid the lake of snow but its slushy on top of the ice found 1.5 to 2 inches under the slush, checked several locations. my guess by mid to end of week should be walkable. be safe and cautious!!
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Post by: OhioFisher19 on December 12, 2016, 07:07:19 PM
Was there a first ice guess thread I missed somewhere this year?? lol
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Post by: snowcone on December 13, 2016, 10:21:59 AM
just a little chatter about first ice ,   its funny  the colder it gets the hotter the site gets..  i may have to move my original guess from 1 st week in jan   to any time  ....right?
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Post by: Downthehole on December 13, 2016, 12:33:14 PM
just a little chatter about first ice ,   its funny  the colder it gets the hotter the site gets..  i may have to move my original guess from 1 st week in jan   to any time  ....right?

Yeah you can safely say that there will be ice somewhere between the chatter starting and it stopping sometime in late Winter/Early Spring...
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Post by: snowcone on December 13, 2016, 04:11:22 PM
yeah man