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Fished 1.75" of ice today.


Jack Peterson

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Went out and fished 5 lakes today. Only caught 2 crappies, and I'm thinking the lack of snow cover/fishing during the midday was the problem.

The last lake I fished only had 1.75" of ice, and whenever my buddy and I got too close together, the ice started to crack!

Sure was a fun time!

Why is this forum all messed up? Solid white background, and everything is misplaced? I'm confused.

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Got out last night on a Chisago county lake. 3.5 inches of good ice. Fished from 5-11PM and ended up with a 15 and 27 inch walleye and a nice eye to the hole which resulted in a line snap. Don't think it was quite as big as the 27 incher, 2 guys.

Nice feeling when your first flag of the year is a 27 inch eye!!! The same was true of the same lake two years ago.

Going out again tonight.

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After checking 2 lakes I made it out yesterday with 2 buddies. I was wearing my AA suit and had a rope with me and used my chisel to check the ice as I went. I did lose my chisel when I hit the ice that had snow on it, it went right through and I fell forward on my hands and knees. I displaced my weight and got back on the ice that had the frozen flood ice on it. My buddy said the ice bowed when I went down!

The spots that had no snow had 2" of solid ice with 1" of white ice. I did fish but I will not be going out again until we get more ice. This was a 40 acre lake that is very wind sheltered with a max depth of 16'. The snow is doing a great job of insulating the ice so be careful out there, but better yet, stay off the ice for now.

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Forum is messed up in FireFox for me as well. I emailed the Admin to see if new code was released a couple days ago. Glad to hear it is not just me as I was getting frustrated by not being able to figure it out and not hearing issues from others.

Style sheets in IE are still working. Hopefully they get it fixed soon.

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Made it out on a west metro lake tonight. 4 in of nice clear ice. Fished a protected bay and found slightly thicker ice pushed up tighter to shore in the back end of the bay.

Went out with the hopes of pannies and maybe a nord,never seen any of the above but did manage 4 walleyes that all together would not equal 1 keeper. Had 1 flag on a 6in sucker, but i snapped the mono leader just above the quick-strike rig. I guess my lazy butt should have changed out that mono also, serves me right. I do know better!

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