ICE

[TRZ II]

What parts of the state are seeing fishable ice? I hope to hit a east central lake by next weekend.

[BartmanMN]

Lakes in my area that had any ice (thin) are now open. Need colder weather.

[adamr]

Good luck its suppose to be 50 tommorrow

[silverbulletguy]

I think we all would like to be on the ice already but I'm guessing it will be a couple weeks before we have safe ice.

[Ryan84*]

It's going to be two weeks in SW Minnesota I think.

Be safe.

[TRZ II]

weather report is not looking too good, very up and down. Maybe 2 weeks, but I hope not!

[Bigtom]

Might as well get the boat back out or go up North to find ice.

[Jarrod32]

Ice in northeast South Dakota; fishable in some spots. Yeah, forecast high of 52 tomorrow...but 20 overnight tonight, and and 17 overnight tomorrow night. A lot more time in the next 36 hours of making ice than any melting of ice...

I fully expect to be on the ice Saturday...

[Tipupdown]

I agree, with the days being a lot shorter there is more time making ice than melting... With that said in the sw minnesota area were finding anywhere from 1/2 - to 3 in of ice.. Best bet we will be out on the ice come the weekend!

[OnAFly]

Around here we are seeing 0" of ice. Any we had melted over the last 5 days. Seriously! 5 straight days of 50F temps in late November?

[tjbassmaster]

Might as well get the boat back out or go up North to find ice.

Or head south! The weekend before thanksgiving I was out on 3 inches by Trimont MN. All the lakes reopened the week of thanksgiving but with the forecast it looks like we will easily have 3 plus inches again this weekend on most if not all the area lakes.

[Rick G]

I am betting that some of the shallow lakes in the St. Cloud area will have enough ice to sneek out on by this weekend .

[gurkster]

Yep - Lakes opened up again in the Forest Lake area. At least a couple weeks for me.

[TRZ II]

I'll try this weekend and let you fellers know how it goes. I hope I don't fall through....

[jBohmer]

I was up in the Crookston area for Thanksgiving, I live in the cities. The lake that my parents live on looked too thin until I walked down to the shore. The ice was 4 to 6 inches thick and I did not bring any of my gear, darn I kept walking out and busting holes and the thickness was consistant. I even heard a rumor while up there that somone was seen on LOTW fishing already. The season is close!!!

[Gardiner14]

Here in east central ND, almost all lake and rivers have at least 4in of ice, with the thickest iv found 6". Went out for the first time yesterday, solid 5".

[Stick in Mud]

Yeah, I think the smaller lakes will be iced up and walkable by this weekend. Not that I can take advantage of it...tore my left calf muscle right before Thanksgiving, so I'm out of action until I can drive out.

[BassFisherman]

Anybody from the brained area have any reports? Might be heading up on Sunday and playing with the idea of bring my gear up...?

[jwmiller33]

Anybody from the brained area have any reports? Might be heading up on Sunday and playing with the idea of bring my gear up...?

Here is the link to the MODIS satellite page for today. Today's image is the first one in a week or so that has given a clear view of the entire state (no clouds)

MODIS satellite image 11/19/11

Check out the MODIS satellite image and it looks like all of the lakes in the brainerd area are still open water. It looks like North Long Lake is starting to get ice around the southern shore line.

As for other lakes, it looks like Upper Red is almost fully iced over and LOTW has shore ice around almost the whole lake. Mille Lacs is still wide open. Looks like almost all Duluth area lakes show no signs of ice.

[Jeremy airjer W]

Definitely not looking good!

Thursday looks like it could be windy with gust in the mid twenties for central MN. Highs are looking to be above freezing for the next couple of days as well.

[Stick in Mud]

Yup, not what I was hoping to see on the satellite for this time of year. Oh well.

[sweatervest76]

Lake by my house is about 85% iced over. I picked up a descent sized rock (about 5lbs) and chucked it out onto the ice and it just cracked slightly and bounced across the ice....we're getting really close fellas!