07/08 Michigan ice condition's

[MrBluegill]

I know im curious about what ice is being made where, and who is going to be out on that hard water first;). lets use this thread to post ice conditions through out the state. Go ahead and post any skims or fishable ice in the state of michigan. make sure to add your location!:)

[SomeYahoo]

Let's all ignore that fact that this is his 666th post and it will NOT be hot as hell this winter.

:lol:

Nothing to report but ice in the driveway this morning.

[fasthunter]

Let's all ignore that fact that this is his 666th post and it will NOT be hot as hell this winter.

:lol:

Nothing to report but ice in the driveway this morning.
:lol::lol::lol:

[MrBluegill]

ok ill start us off.....The west end of Gun lake was completly ice over this morning...ill check after school for thickness...the chanals might be fishable in a few days if this keeps up

[Frozenfish]

Cass Lake in Waterford had ice about 200 yards out on the East shore line. Seems the sea gulls were happy to get the ice as well, lol.

[HoytMan44]

The bay I live on has been frozen over for at least 4 days now

[Ausable Junkie]

Jose Lake in Iosco county (along with several other smaller lakes) have
a complete skim cover.

With the forecast i just saw, looks like 5-6 days and i can fish most lakes
around here. 2-3 days and the smaller bays and channels will be fishable.

[RyGuy525]

I know it is not a fishable body of water or very large but the pond at 6 mile and haggerty was completly iced over as of 2 PM today.

[the rapids]

quarton lake was frozen over in b-ham...looks like im done with my fly casting practice there.

[thedude]

bass lake in NE kent county has skim ice throughout, little open water on the north shore. 1/2" max i would guess at this point.

a lot of the small lakes back in the woods have had ice since thanksgiving, if they are protected, yesterdays blow didn't open them up.

[theeyes]

Our lake is froze all the way over now, next few days should do it!!!
http://www.theeyeshaveit.net/afreeze.jpg

[weekendredneck]

One of the two lakes that my sub has access to has been frozen over for the last two days (I'm in Hartland). The other is wide open. I'm a little nervous; we are supposed to get rain on Sunday.

[Ausable Junkie]

Just checked weather.com. They're calling for 6-10" sat. thru sunday up
here. That could really screw the ice up and slow it down.....

JUst when i was getting excited about the early ice prospect.

[223369]

our little 1/2 arce pond is completely froze over.:)

[GoneFishin]

Just checked weather.com. They're calling for 6-10" sat. thru sunday up
here. That could really screw the ice up and slow it down.....

JUst when i was getting excited about the early ice prospect.

We certainly don't want a repeat of last year, the heavy snows really screwed up the ice up there. I have a cabin on a lake in Ogemaw Co. and couldn't safely get out til past mid Jan..

[RyGuy525]

Gonefishin you need to clear out your PM box!

[shadow]

its suppose to be 16 degrees tonight :eek: its already 20 out right now at 9pm. there was ice on all lakes i drove past today in livingston county. i will report back when anything promising builds up

[Westlakedrive]

There is somewhat of an indicator lake around Fremont, a smaller lake, that is one of the first to get ice action.
Drove by today had zero ice. Had plenty of wind in west Michigan.

[MIfishinGuy]

anybody have anything to report for Oakland Co., Holloway or anything close?

i know some people said skim but im wondering if these windy days blew em open.

Keep the rain and snow away!!!

[JJ Mac]

Any chance we could get some sticky's again for ice conditions by region? :idea:

[JDHUNTER]

Stood on the ice today for the first this year today. It supported me but I was only on my cannel and the main lake is still wide open.
Ice was over 2 inches thick and who knows, I may drop a line this afternoon:fish: Just for kicks:D

[theeyes]

Our lake is froze all the way over now, next few days should do it!!!
http://www.theeyeshaveit.net/afreeze.jpg

Just got a report that there was a good 4" of solid ice out there. Hope we don't get a bunch of snow tonight.

[Buddwiser]

Stoney Creek is froze up. I could not see any open water except for the immediate area of the north dam.

[browning13]

ive never been able to say ive ice fished in november but we got out on wednesday this week with 2-3" of good ice. when we were out today there was 4-5". we were fishing a smaller lake around 100 acres so im not sure about the larger ones. we might check around on sunday. it sure was nice to get out. hopefully we dont get to much snow tonite, there calling for 8-12":bloos:

[msunolimit]

Well, I talked to my old man today...Said he walked about 5ft offshore on the ice on Ryerson Lake (in Fremont)...Him and my mom said they were watching the ice form, and as of yesterday afternoon, said the lake had completely skimmed over.

It's a beaaaaaautiful thing baby :)

[fishonbb]

Is it just me or is Mr. Bluegill awfully quiet?:rolleyes:

[zx10r2004]

Is it just me or is Mr. Bluegill awfully quiet?:rolleyes:
he must have fell in.:D

[RyGuy525]

I think he said he was going somewhere for the weekend....

[HunterHawk]

yeah he went to Chicago.... i was out on the ice (not fishing) but i was out on the ice on a river... in a bayou though.... but still i was walking around i bet there was fish in there too (this was saturday morning)..... now i would probably fall in :(.... was pretty dang warm today and looked like a lot of ice around here was melting.... figures i knew it was to good to be true

[MrBluegill]

Is it just me or is Mr. Bluegill awfully quiet?:rolleyes:


Im Back, dident fall in but i did just get off the ice from my first day of the 07/08 icefishing season!!!!!!!:D:D:D

[HunterHawk]

REAL COOL.... post that but dont post what happend just so somoene will ask..... ya know what ill go ahead and add another post to my total...... how did it go :)

[MIfishinGuy]

oh man i hope this day didn't mess things up. i've got a lot of slush around the yard and i hope it doesnt look the same on ice, that would refreeze afully bad. hopefully the rain melted off the snow, but i wouldn't know since im not close to any lakes. anyone got horror stories of what today did? we probably won't know the full extent until tomorrow.

[snowman11]

IT'S FREAKIN 50 OUT!

Two hours ago, IT WAS 46!!!!

***!?!?!

[zx10r2004]

[quote=snowman11;1887281]IT'S FREAKIN 50 OUT!

Two hours ago, IT WAS 46!!!!

:yeahthat: :rant:

[RyGuy525]

after all of that slush and crap from last night it may be better if it all melts off the lakes and starts over fresh. It may set us back a week or so but the the ice will be much better because of it.

[FISH21]

RyGuy525

after all of that slush and crap from last night it may be better if it all melts off the lakes and starts over fresh. It may set us back a week or so but the the ice will be much better because of it.

:yeahthat:...and then all we need is for this freakin wind to die down!!!

[woodie slayer]

:yeahthat:...and then all we need is for this freakin wind to die down!!!


i hope the wind blows 50 mph.it will help dry things up.

[MIfishinGuy]

after all of that slush and crap from last night it may be better if it all melts off the lakes and starts over fresh. It may set us back a week or so but the the ice will be much better because of it.

i thought the same thing, kind of bittersweet.

[RyGuy525]

i hope the wind blows 50 mph.it will help dry things up.


Ask and you shall receive apparently! It sure is blowing out there today.




I hope i win 10 million dollars! (It's worth a shot:lol:)

[HunterHawk]

:lol:... i was like why did he type that at the bottom.... i wish you the best of luck.... if i can have 1 million i wish you the best on 10 :lol:

[mrblugil]

Jose Lake in Iosco county (along with several other smaller lakes) have
a complete skim cover.

With the forecast i just saw, looks like 5-6 days and i can fish most lakes
around here. 2-3 days and the smaller bays and channels will be fishable.

are there any fish left in that lake? Grampa had the first cabin built on the lake fished it from the early forties til 70s,can't believe theres anything left in that an Chain of lakes:confused:

[joefsu]

Well looking at the title of this thread I figure I'll post this here. I talked to my cousin last night and he told me caught a few walleyes Saturday night and a few small walleyes and a small pike throught the ice Sunday night on a local lake in my hometown of Iron River. He said there we quads all the way out in the middle of the lake already. He said there's probably 6 inches of solid ice.

Just thought you guy's would like to know. :evil:

Joe

[snowman11]

checked today, SE Michigan, pretty big pond, 1.5" at shore.

[Duck-Hunter]

Tonight
Dec 05

Partly Cloudy 15° 10 % Thu
Dec 06

http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/30.gif Partly Cloudy 27°/21° 10 % Fri
Dec 07

http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/14.gif AM Snow Showers 32°/25° 60 % Sat
Dec 08

http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/28.gif Mostly Cloudy 28°/27° 10 % Sun
Dec 09

http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/10.gif Light Rain / Freezing Rain 39°/32° 40 % Mon
Dec 10

http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/5.gif Rain / Snow Showers 36°/28° 30 % Tue
Dec 11

http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/28.gif Mostly Cloudy 34°/26° 10 % Wed
Dec 12

http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/5.gif Rain / Snow Showers 35°/29° 30 %
Thu
Dec 13 http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/41.gif Scattered Snow Showers 35°/26° 30 %
Fri
Dec 14 http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/41.gif Scattered Snow Showers 36°/26° 30 %


Looks good until sunday. then the temp goes up and snow :(

[to far gone]

Seen a guy fishing gillets lake today. he walked out from his house went about 100 yards from shore. drilled hole at boat launch. 2 inches.

[duckman#1]

Mr B.gill so are we going to hit the channels this weekend? Looking like its going to be ok. Have you been back out?

[MrBluegill]

O yea duckman ive been out and about since sunday....i got a mixed bag tonight of specks and gill...ended up with 11keepers....bigest gill was 9"....let me know if you wana fish......the chanals are not produceing fish like they usualy do its really weird...but i got other places.;)

[snowman11]

checked another small pond in wayne county today. 2"...not enough for me. I went out the customary ten feet, plunged the axe in and watched the spider shoot right through the center of my feet, then split. NOT what you want to see.

Still had nearly open water in the center. Another week if we weren't going to get rain on Monday.

[deputy865]

Lake Fenton is starting to get some ice...

I cant wait!

Shane

[thedude]

bass lake N. Kent county (just NW of greenville) had 3" of good ice. about 20yds from the ramp. 2" solid/clear & 1" white but solid ice.

guys were out about 100yds from shore fishing... not sure what the ice was like out there, but the area i checked was the last to freeze.

lincoln lake on the otherhand has 90% open water :lol:

[icefishin nutz]

Does anyone know any conditions of Fair haven? We will take a ride out there tomarrow, and report:), if I dont find out anything sooner.We took a ride by brandenburg, just to see how much longer there, ice to the end of the pier, with some water still on top, didnt have time to really "check it out" our 2 year old was having a meltdown. But I think maybe in the next week or two there, weather considered of course. Hey Joe, those are your stompin grounds....any input?

[XXXdisel77]

You guys friggin crack me up :lol:! I just can't seem to ger too excited about ice fishing this year. I have to go in for shoulder and hernia surgery around the second week of January so that will be the end of my ice fishing season. I keep hoping for some early ice, but with the way the weather is around here and the past few years lack of ice, I am not getting my hopes up. Good luck to you all in hopes of a great ice fishing year. I look forward to seeing all the posts of your catches while I'm sitting back in a sling wishing like heck I could be out there.

Ryan