How many days left til I can walk on water?

[jBohmer]

Is it wrong that I cannot wait for ice to form on the lakes. I guess the fact that I do not have a boat or the time to do serious fishing in the summer is why I find myself wishing I was sitting on the river in my FT listening to the radio while sipping a beer. I love the summer but miss the fishing I get to do in the winter. Anyone else messed up in the head like me?

[tonykummrow]

I am... bring on the ice

[toughguy]

155 days!!!!

[WTN4ICE]

I feel your pain bro !!!!!!

[TooTallTom]

I kind of dread hard-water season. All that walking on water gives me a god complex.

[Moose-Hunter]

I could sure use a bit of the temps right now... 86* in the shop and climbing!!

[Rippinlip]

Crisp air, smell of 2 stroke auger starting up, snap of the little buddy heater fired up, Vexilar lighting up, dropping of the Buck Shot rattle jig to the lines on the vex and the crack of your favorite cold one........

ahhhhhhhh much better now!

[Bigtom]

Yes jBohmer, you are not the only one. As I fired up the ice auger yesterday and ordered another $200.00 in ice jigs. Waiting for some good 0 degree days.

[givetoget]

Crisp air, smell of 2 stroke auger starting up, snap of the little buddy heater fired up, Vexilar lighting up, dropping of the Buck Shot rattle jig to the lines on the vex and the crack of your favorite cold one........

ahhhhhhhh much better now!

Thanks rippinlip, after sitting here at my desk reading your post over & over & over & over, I get caught staring off into space, drooling, and trying to open and take a drink from my mouse. How embarrasing!

[rugbymn]

If you base your calculations on the day after Thanksgiving as the first day of ice fishing like I do (it's usually 3-4" by then up north), it's only 141 days!*

*Yes, I have a count down on my calendar at work.

[jBohmer]

Bump!!!

The temps are getting cooler at night and it smells like fall when I walk out to the truck in the morning. Hardwater time is getting closer!

[BrandonJ]

I cant wait, looking through the ice fishing forum doesn't help. Oh it will be nice get the grill and the tv out. 70's forcasted for a while hopefully its the last of the devils work.

[Southwick]

Last season I was on a CT lake a week before Xmas so I'm hoping the same this season. Hoping all the big girls I let go the last few years are a little bigger and still willing to bite. C + R is the way to go.

[dairyman]

I was on the ice 1st week of Dec last year!!!!!!!

[toughguy]

60-65 days to go!!!

[Finlander]

Been ice fishing the first weekend in November a few times! Ya never know when the norht wind blow's!!!

[reinhard1]

i can remember 4 years that we could not walk on this small lake north of duluth a week after thanksgiving. there normaly is at least 4 inches of good ice on this lake at this time and we dont have to walk far from shore. i got a feeling this will be one of those years when i would be able to walk on the lake there a week after thanksgiving. snowfall always is a big factor after first ice as we all know. good luck.

[grizrunner]

not enough

[Brad B]

I don't have a certain number of days but my general rule I go by is the following:

first week of December walking out.

week after Christmas driving out.

January to first week of march driving only.

the earliest I have been out is a couple days after thanksgiving. that was a exceptional year for the number of day I was able to be on the ice. it came early and stayed late.

[rugbymn]

We traditionally make ourselves as light as possible and venture out the day after Thanksgiving. That's not always easy after a good thanksgiving meal!

By that measure, I'm only 60 days from having boots on the ice.