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Ice fishing in the rain

ktjig

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I'm headed to LOW next weekend and it looks like rain. We pull portables all winter, but it looks like rain next weekend. My question is should I weatherproof my portable, or just put a tarp over it on the ice. I'm wondering if weatherproofing will hurt the way the house is intended to breath? We are bringing the guide wear to fish in the rain just in case. No weather will stop my March trip(s). Thanks

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One house is a double flip from Canvas Craft and the other is a double flip Polar. It seems that when it snows outside and the heat is on inside, it sometimes drips inside, right through the fabric. I'm just wondering what the rain (if any) will do. Thanks It looks as though the weather in Roosevelt is looking up for Thursday - Saturday when we are up there.

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ktjig.....Ya man it's looking sweet weatherwise for the dates your up here. Darn near perfect bucket sittin weather forecasted and there is no better place on earth to be than the LOTW on the late March ice as you have so darn many options....You can try for the BIG girl Wally's stacked up on their prespawn haunts or chase mass numbers of eaters. The Jumbosaurus Perch are on a tear these days and the Pike bite has been super around the pond too.

Whats a guy to do!!! You're gonna have a great trip!

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I feel honored to have fiskyknut respond to my post, thanks man. We'll be staying in a shack at Babblers and either taking wheelers or trucks out, depending on the breakers. We like to hit the 16, and if there is trouble getting out there, we'll go, to stay away from the masses. Always in the shallows every evening though. We've been doing well in the shallows all season. Looking forward to that extra hour in the evening. Oh yeah, the weather looks awesome through Sunday, when we come home. Thanks again. ktjig

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Oh oh my head is swelling and may burst!!! grin.gif

Just the one humongoid active breaker by the rock. Babs has his road going around it to the west now....It goes way west by northwesterly to within about a mile of 12, around the breaker and then comes straight back to the east and links up to the old road right near S arnesons.

I spoke with Richard a bit on Saturday morning and he was hoping to get the bridge reopened but with the up and down temps and volatility of the breakers this year who knows?

Roughness of the road has kept the crowds fairly thin on that spot 6.5 miles out as the crow flies compared to years past.

Golly just not enough time for everything in March, a couple of shallow waypoints between the rock and the twin rocks have been calling to me, March' past they have been darn good to me.

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