your wont belive the ice i got on

[MrBluegill]

today i was out on the Gun lake in berry county on the sun rise chanal on an 1.5 of ice(the only ice left on the lake) but the outher three chanals were open water.....ill tell you what, that was some risky ice but good think im a kid..I wana hear form you guys and some of the risky ice youve been out on and where you were at....


Nick Zyskowski

[Cooley]

I'm just happy to see you were able to make this post!
Myself, one inch of ice, above a spring, didn't know, I was lucky.
Be safe! ! !

[icefishermanmark]

I've been on 1/2inch, layer of water. then 1/2 inch, and you better believe i dropped to my stomach and scurried back to safe ice.

[waggleduck]

Personnaly I dont wanna to die before im 16 but i guess thats up to you.;) I prefer the ice where I dont have to worry about doing an unplanned swim in freezing water.

That being said , the worst ice Ive been on was last year on the bay. It was right at last ice and the last 100 yards to shore, we were going through the ice every step we took. It was wierd because you would break through 4 inches of ice and then be standing in 6 inches of water. Once you got out farther though, the ice was still really good.

[Stkbow]

Todd Lake outside of Reed City. Didn't think to check the ice since we saw several guys sitting in a cove on buckets across the lake. We stepped out onto the ice at the public access and got about 30 yards or so. I hit the ice with my spud out in front of me and it punched through. I was ahead of my buddy when I heard the crack. I stopped and he stopped. That's when I noticed the ice all around us was rising and falling up and down from our weight. The ice where I punched through was about 1/2" or less. We backed off the ice and called it a day. The funny thing was we fished on Lake Cadillac the day before and had plenty of ice. Just shows to go ya, every lake is different.

[WALLEYEvision]

Glad to hear were not calling you Mr. Pinebox!:bash:

[Mtnman198]

About 10 years ago I was spearing out on Silver Lake in Pinkney, had a shanty out all season. One February day my Dad and I started out with over 8 inches of ice, by afternoon we noticed the ice around the hole (from inside the shanty) disappeared. We got out to tend a flag and noticed one of the shanties was one that was there that morning. While talking it over, we watched three others drop. Mind you, the ice was solid and in good condition for the whole season. Needless to say, we broke the shanty loose from omly 3 inches of ice and hauled it off the lake. Problem was we couldn't take it off by the boat launch since thats the direction the shanyies sunk.

This was a good lesson, you never ever can be certain of ice conditions. We still can't explain why the ice went so fast......

[Little Roober]

I was on 1.5 once...we got our shanty set up and when people walked by us we could see the water rise in the hole...Caught a bunch of fish though:)

[redneckman]

Late december last year we went on a lake and walked 20 yards out but i droped the spud twice and it went through. I didnt take the time to see how thick the ice was. The day before we were on a lake with quads. It can really change from lake to lake.


Redneckman

[TrailFndr]

went thru once when I was 17, lucky me, I was only in 3 ft of water. I am now nearling 50 and have never been out on less than 3 inches since that day. And I won't go out on less for any fish. It just ain't worth it.

[bigsid]

I think you're crazy!:confused: :rolleyes:

[Duck-Hunter]

why would you fish on 1.5" of ice?

[Jacob Huffman]

About 15 years ago my dad and I were going out to ice fish the TITT.in Saginaw for walleye.I was in the lead with the spud following a three wheeler trail...as Im banging the ice I just happen to put the spud through on one hit..I about S**T my pants...my dad backed up and I did like wise.We walked around that spot and found great ice 8" the rest of the way..Not sure why it was only 2" there but I have never forgotten that day...You go through in a lake you have an average chance of making it back to the top...Go through on a river and your perch bait....:yikes:

[MiketheElder]

Maybe 10 - 15 years ago my BIL and I were at Metro (Lake St Clair) on 1 1/2 to 2 inches of ice. We weren't close to each other for safety's sake.:lol:

A guy and his wife come walking straight towards me. I'm yelling at them to stop but these wackos DIDN'T SPEAK ENGLISH!!!!!!!!! When they got too close I got up and ran towards shore, left my stuff right where it was. These two rectal orifices still didn't get it. Until I held my fingers a couple of inches apart. They both did the instant "bend the knees, arms straight out stance" and tiptoed off the ice. Seems funny now but I was highly ticked at the time.

[MiketheElder]

Same Brother-in-Law was fishing one night, by himself:bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: near one of the marinas at Ten Mile (Lake St Clair). Had fished there several times before. You guessed it, went straight through. Totally immersed, had to let go of his spud because it was dragging him down. Luckily he came back up in the same hole he went in. Told me by the time he got out and back to his van he was like the tin man. Drove home naked with the heater going full blast.

[Ed Michrina]

I went out on a warmer day and walked across an iffy canal, to get to airport bay off lake Erie. I didn't like it when I crossed it in the am.. Crossing it in the pm Scared the heck out of us. ice was breaking as we walked. not fun.


Look at this as a learning experience. We all do silly stuff from time to time. The ones that don't do it again grow old the others- don't grow old.

You posted this so It was in the back of your mind you know what is right. Grow old;)

[salmonslammer]

why would you fish on 1.5" of ice?



Because you can....:D

[FlyBoy]

we had a permanent shanty just downstream from the Z-bridge on the sag. river a couple years ago and the wind made a drift on the upstream side of the shanty, while we were there taking the shanty down for the year my friend walked through the drift and went straight thru. he's about 240 lbs. and he crawled out like it was nothin. he got very lucky.

[duckman#1]

3 winters ago we went out to Chief Noonday lake at the start of the season. Saw a couple of guys out fishing so we walked out about 30 yards, checked the ice and it was 1" thick, we turned and carefully walked back to shore, the next day in the news, a fisherman drowned in that lake.
No more 1"-2" ice for me!

[jeremy L]

Just yesterday, on about 1 1/2-2 1/2 inches of ice. The only reason i was on it was because it was only over 2 1/2 feet of water and i was 30 feet from shore. Anything over 3 feet and i'm not going on it til 4 inches of ice or more.

[bucknduck]

My first ice is usually 1/2-3/4 inch thick. Usually I'm out breaking through on purpose to make a hole for my duck decoys in the marsh.:lol:

[SuperHunter18]

3.5 inches!

I don't feel like going for a cold swim...ever!

[bigbob]

3 or more for me to get on

[lil daddy]

a couple of years ago my buddy and i went out smelt fishing on green lake.we were checking the ice all the way out because we were the only ones ther at this time first ice.:lol: we started out with about 3 in then 2 1/2 then back to three so thinken things were good started to fish.:fish: were bitting just below the ice no more than 2 ft below what a blast.then as were through the fish on the ice they started to SWIM around us :yikes: .that was something to see :tdo12: we were about 2o ft apart sitting in a bowl of 1 in of water.how fast things can change.

[double trouble]

i had a shanty set up on walled lake all season. pike time there is late february. walked out on 1 inch and went thru in 2-3 feet of water and so did my buddy.the ice was shaking in waves as we walked out. we still went out wet to fish on a couple inches and absolutly slaughtered the pike. they were even biting on dead nasty minnows off bottom.we fished until we ran out of bait . at dusk we dragged the shanty back on shore for the season.luckily we didnt freeze because it was 40 degrees. i'd never do it again but we knew the lake well and it is the first to freeze and the last to thaw.ah, wet ,stupid fisherman. what a sport.

[Ed Stringer]

2001 bucket fishin Geno's and watching my buds head bob from the small wave action, ice was 5" but soft. Yes we bailed real quick.

[Duck-Hunter]

Because you can....:D

becuase your dumb.

[dabarrows]

about 4 years ago a bunch oif us went out on kentsington late in the season. Ice around the shore was nil we had to go about 2 feet into the water to get to the ice and then when out there might have been 2 inches. To top it off it we were out when a thunderstorm rolled in, only michigan. You could'nt get within five feet of one another without a gyser of water coming from your hole. We were out in about 30 foot of water and we absolutly tore up the crappie. I think we should have all had our heads examined after that.

[Northlander]

You won't believe the ice I was on today either.....(HEHE) It was a solid 19" inches, and not a thing to worry about. :fish2: At least till the end of April.......

[ted stehney]

Many years ago me and Cookie hit Lake St. Clair off Selfridge. Last ice, it was a nice warm morning. The fog was very thick over the lake. About one hunderd yards visibility. We had good ice the day before although it was becoming honeycombed. The fish were about a mile out, so we took a compass reading (this was before hand held GPS) and off we went. We made it out to were we caught them the day before. The ice was about 4 to 5" and in bad shape. It was right at the end of the white ice that we caught the fish on the day earlier. Beyond the white ice was very bad honeycombed ice that looked like there was no ice at all. Boy was it spooky out there. As we set up to fish with about 200 of our closest friends we could see off the white ice there was a few dozen crazies out on the clear honey combed ice just a crankin on the perch. The fish had moved off from under the white ice. (most likely due to the heavey traffic.) After watching them catch fish one after another about 50 yards from me I told Cookie I was going out to check it out. I moved very slowly off the white ice and with every step the water would come up about an inch around my feet. After about a 30 yard walk I sat down on my bucket at 2 open holes. The water came up from the holes and all around me for about ten feet the water was about three inches deep above the ice. And the perch were biting like crazy. Nice perch! I lasted about 5 minutes before my nerves gave in. I could not sit on that bad ice another second. Cookie thought I had lost my marbles going onto the bad ice with the rest of the crazies. Once safely back on the safe ice we fished about another thirty minutes before packing it in. We could hear people lost in the fog out farther calling for direction. Really a creepy morning with the fog. Yes I learned my lesson, not the hard way thank goodness. Pat O'briens has wonderful perch and smelt in March! Sorry to ramble, but it left an impression that will last me a life time. Just thinking about the people lost in the fog, over deep water, on bad ice makes my neck hair stand up. Be careful its not worth your life.