Jeremy airjer W Posted December 2, 2010 Author Share Posted December 2, 2010 Ice reports are pretty slim but I guess thats a good thing! With the rain and snow its pretty iffy on what you'll find. Hopefully the cooler weather coming will help!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jBohmer Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 can someone tell me what there is for ice on the smaller lakes in chisago or washington county area?? good 4 inches?? good +4 inches? I was out in the oakdale/maplewood area saturday. I found a solid 4 inches at the four lakes i looked at about a 100 ft. out from the landings. I did not see any open water. i am guessing that it has only got better since. the warm day did not last long and I am sure more ice has been made since. I am going out saturday after the ice fishing show. I think I may try Jane out. It is small enough lake to drag my stuff out to a decent fishing spot. I hope the ice is good, I think it is worth a try. good luck and be careful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy airjer W Posted December 2, 2010 Author Share Posted December 2, 2010 Tanner was froze over prior to the rain/warm weather and opened back up after. Last night it was still open. The ice that may have been there Saturday may not be there this weekend, just so you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jBohmer Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Tanner was froze over prior to the rain/warm weather and opened back up after. Last night it was still open. The ice that may have been there Saturday may not be there this weekend, just so you know. Thanks for the tip. I think I may take the long way home from work tonight and double check Jane out. Could be a similar situation there too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottie56005 Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Le Sueur area and some of Scott county: Clear Lake (Le Sueur) 4-5" on shore, and 3" about 30' out and 2" about 50. Not safe really even that far out. Quality is poor and has refroze in many area. No black ice, all cloudy and not very good ice. No one fishing yet. Prior lake (Scott) Closed one day open the next. Shores are hit n miss with anything from open water to 3". Cedar (Scott) south-south east have the most with 3-4" and the north-north east with 1-3" Have heard that Fish (scott) is locked but not with minimal ice. Same for Carls (scott) with a little more possibly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKEETER-B Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 We have 5 1/2 inches on the creamery pond in Luverne Mn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmichaelm Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Talked to some guys at the landing on Medicine today that had just walked out to look. I was there a week ago and it was wide open. They reported 2" about 75yds from shore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn_bowhunter Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 5-6" on a couple smaller area lakes. Larger lakes should be fishable, but I'm not brave enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy airjer W Posted December 3, 2010 Author Share Posted December 3, 2010 Thanks everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibbing Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 From this morning's Duluth Paper:KASOTA, Minn. — A fisherman has been flown to a hospital after falling through the ice of a south-central Minnesota lake. The Free Press of Mankato reported that the man fell through the ice on Lake Washington on Thursday. A neighbor heard a call for help and called 911. Emergency crews arrived to find an all-terrain vehicle parked near a hole in the ice several dozen yards from shore, but they couldn't see the man. A member of the Madison Lake Dive Team jumped in the water and pulled the man to safety. His condition had not been released as of Thursday evening. Le Sueur County Sheriff Tom Doherty estimated the ice was about 4 inches thick where the man fell through into about 12 feet of water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnAFly Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Might be a little early for ATVs. Hard to test the ice while driving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan_S Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 The man who went through was someone I know. Despite the best efforts of many people who attempted a rescue, he did not survive. Be careful on this early ice everybody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishin4fun85 Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 sorry to hear that...he was taking a risk with the ATV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy airjer W Posted December 3, 2010 Author Share Posted December 3, 2010 That's to bad. There is definitely not enough ice anywhere to be riding an ATV on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman45 Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 But didn't it say the atv was next to the hole in the ice that he fell through? Sounds like he just found a bad spot while he was off the atv walking around. To think a fishing outing could be your last day on earth. Now I understand why I wait until there are 6-8" of ice I just value my life more than others do. You can't be safe on less than 4" of ice because there is no standard for ice. 4" here 1.5" there a school of carp were under the ice over there you don't know what could be going on under the ice. Get a wilcraft if you must go out on early ice it is cheaper than a funeral. My sympathies go out to the family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slipbobbin Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Thoughts and prayers to you and the family. Sad day on the ice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Stark Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 checked the same small lake iv been checking for the past two weeks today. was planning on fishing but i did not find the ice i was hoping for. there was around 2in of black ice with 6in of wet slush ice on top. the slush ice was not completely frozen. im waiting for that slush ice to firm up. a few pike just arent worth it.checked out burntside as well. it was all open water off the van vac landing. i didnt see any ice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy airjer W Posted December 3, 2010 Author Share Posted December 3, 2010 Thanks Mike! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popriveter Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Yesterday (Thursday, 12/2) I rechecked the same small, south metro area lake that had 2-4" last week. This time, I found 4" in almost all spots I tried with a couple 5" spots, but the top inch or two was very white and didn't seem real solid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceCrappie Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 I've heard reports of 6+ out on demontreville out by stillwater the past two days.... does anyone know if that's true?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwhjr Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 5-6" on a small lake in the Emily/Outing area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottie56005 Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Looks like you were doing quite a bit of hole hopping. Catch anything else other than whats floating and laying on the ice? Thanks for the ice report, I really want to head north and fish but I'm not driving up there till it's good n safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgreen82 Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 dang you guys. i had planned on being out tomorrow morning, but got the call on wed. that i had to come in for a warehouse project tomorrow 7-4. real bummer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwhjr Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Looks like you were doing quite a bit of hole hopping. Catch anything else other than whats floating and laying on the ice? Thanks for the ice report, I really want to head north and fish but I'm not driving up there till it's good n safe. The crappies were biting pretty much non-stop (the floating one did swim back down). Had my line broke off twice (assuming northern). Today I may throw a tipup out to see if I can snag one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackdog1101 Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 I was out on the western end of Lake Minnetonka today and had 5+ inches of good clear ice. Of course there was about 6" of fluffy snow on top, but the ice seemed good. It was so great to be out on the ice again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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