Talked with my buddy again, around noon,, he had 3 fish and there was only 2 other guys out there,,,, TOTAL!! He said the ice was in BAD SHAPE!! You could scrape away at least 6" of slushy ice off the top, with your boot. I'm actually hopin' this storm we're expecting is WORSE than expected, maybe that ice will get totally blown outta there.

 

Let's hope so......so maybe we'll get another crack at them hogs with our boats.

 

yea, but its gonna take another 3 weeks to get the ice away from the launches unless we can get some drunken moron to try to drive his 4 x 4 out there to break it up??? Where the heck are these guys when you need them???????

 

3 WEEKS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll be out there sooner that 3 weeks, I know that! There are some cracks that have opened up in front of Crocker also. One crack was right at the end of the "retaining wall" or whatever you wanna call it. The crack was about 4" wide and moving, so with this wind,, "most" of the ice should be gone tomorrow.

 

its pretty shallow in close, lets have a polar bear swim party, thats should break the ice up with all of us fallin thru.. then we can start launchin boats

 

What's the chance on catching some of those hog perch with our boats? Think they will still be in the same spots as on the ice or will they move in closer to shore?

 

Neversunk,
I just loved your solution as soon as I read it; I laughed like hell… haha!

You’re a man in tune with the reality of the situation , and seeing what I saw out there this season, I couldn’t agree with you more !

Dan K.

 

I was out there from Gino's Thursday all day. There were at leat ten people out there, just couldn't see everyone all the time because of the fog. Ice was actually pretty good. About 2-3 inches of honeycombed ice and 6-7 good solid inches of ice. But the shoreline ice is getting pretty bad. Lots of good ice still out there but you probably won't be able to get to it. Hopefully it blew out today or it will be there a while especially since it will be getting cooler again. Oh, by the way, got about 15 real big perch, caught 7 other that I threw back that were about 9 inches or so and got one 20.5" smallie. Pretty good fight but gave up after two short runs.