Ice conditions with this Warm wind today

[Jim43]

I can`t believe it rained again last night and barely went

below freezing, just a little ice of the roads this morning

but temps were already 44f. Now at 11am its up to 48f and

wind is starting to pick up with a wind advisory this

afternoon into the evening. I have a feeling it might be a

while before the ice in this region becomes safe again. I

would not even want walk on it when its been this warm for

so long. I guess I`ll have to savor last weekends fishing

to keep reminding myself its december. suppose to be in the mid 50`s here today.

[FishingwithJake]

Goodbye ice rod, hello shotgun.

[311Hemi]

Yep......I am going pheasant hunting Saturday ...sounds like we should have nice weather.....

[Eric Wettschreck]

ditto. would rather be fishin,however.

[ice_it_06]

Lakes in my area were holding their own as of Tuesday.

Yesterday noticed a little darkening starting to happen and today alot of it is going on. Grass is greening and ground is soft and wet everywhere and wind gusting to 20+.

My larger permanent is sitting in the sun and the wood reading 60 degrees. I'm going out to roll a second coat of stain on it that I did not get done four weeks ago when it turned rather cold.

Then its going in storage as this 4,000 lb unit will not see any ice anytime soon enough to deal with it.

I bought a light weight 5 X 8 three weeks ago thinking by next week I'd be on the ice and driving by New Years.

I'm close to packing the whole season away and will decide by mid next week.

Painting outside on Dec 14 is not a good sign.

[Jim43]

I feel your pain to, just invested over $1500 in new fishing

equipment to get this year going and it only got used once this

last weekend. My son is furious, keeps saying Curse you mother

nature. He wanted to go back out ice fishing this weekend so

bad.Last weekend he slaughtered the fish, outfished me 3 to 1.

Then again, Dad was putting on the bait for him, he has issues

with hooking waxies yet.

[bottomdweller]

Put the rods away, got the shotgun back out and yep got the harley out going for a ride tommorrow

[IceHawk]

Decided to pull out the shotgun and grab the Shorthair for the last few days and boy has it been a blast. Birds are thick in the cattails!!! Be safe and go get them!

[Rick]

Bird Hunting it is for me as well.

Icehawk,

come on down tomorrow morning before 8:30 am!!

We'll see if we can't find some birds

[John Henderson]

The weather sure has been frustrating for those of us that live in the Metro and south however don't give up yet. You can still travel to Mille Lacs and find good fishable ice! Reports are 8-10" of ice on the south part of the lake. Funny they have not lost any ice this week and have even gained some ice? If willing to travel a bit you can still find good ice fishing.

[Dances with Walleye]

Not sure if anyone has noticed or not, but the cold turn of weather in South Dakota has accelerated the oncoming of the cold front, and the forecast has us taking a dip closer to normal in temps this weekend...

We should be back to a positive Ice gain again by Sunday night, as Sunday is only coming up as a high of 33.

So really, it's a walk-out situation this weekend, and then we're moving nicely once again.

My Ex lives on a lake near Fergus... She called me last night to congratulate me on getting engaged, and told me that every night she hears the lake pinging and popping as it rejuvinates the ice lost during the day.

So it's not totally terrible... It just means you guys in the cities are going to have to come north if you want to find "Decent" ice.

[rundrave]

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Not sure if anyone has noticed or not, but the cold turn of weather in South Dakota has accelerated the oncoming of the cold front,

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????? its 55 here in South Dakota today and our forecast shows 55, 50, 46, 35 for daytime temps the next couple of days. Our low here in Sioux Falls is 29 degrees for tonight and tommorrow night.

I will be bird hunting this weekend instead of fishing. Atleast I was able to get out once this week before the ice got bad again.

[IceHawk]

Rick- I would love to but already committed to a large group . We plan on hunting some big catail sloughs, plus a huge cornfield we watched numerous birds going into. We tried the corn today and about 15 roosters shot out on the ends tommorow we will have blockers!

Next time I would be up for it. Plan on possibly hitting the slayton area next week.

[Dances with Walleye]

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Not sure if anyone has noticed or not, but the cold turn of weather in South Dakota has accelerated the oncoming of the cold front,

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????? its 55 here in South Dakota today and our forecast shows 55, 50, 46, 35 for daytime temps the next couple of days. Our low here in Sioux Falls is 29 degrees for tonight and tommorrow night.

I will be bird hunting this weekend instead of fishing. Atleast I was able to get out once this week before the ice got bad again.

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The report I got was that it snowed in Western SD last night, which is going to cool down the prevailing westerlies...

Current forecast for my region (And I fish and Hour North of where I live) is

Friday High 38 (Windy) Low of 30

Saturday High 42 Low 21

Sunday High 33 Low 17

Which is down on all numbers by about 5 degrees from what it said yesterday.

Yeah it's not -10 and perfect ice making... But I consider it a positive change in the forecast, as far as Ice Fishing is concerned.