a crazy year!!!

[LaVoi]

Hey everyone, what tempted me to write this post was after reading Mossy's, after he said he had heard that the ice was now getting good. What a crazy year indeed. After all the complaining we have all done, (well most of us, and I am no exception) over this unusually mild winter we have to admit that there are many benefits that we have overlooked. It's now early Feb, and it's the time of year that we would normally be looking and digging for those auger extensions we have tucked away. We would go out knowing we had to power through up to three + feet of ice to reach the soft water. Or how about the fish, it's nice to know that there has been virtually no harm for drastic oxygen depletion with such a thin layer. Of course the conditions have not been as safe, I learned that after feeling my truck start to drop, but only after getting out of this predicament did I realize it was my own stupidity that I was driving anywhere and everywhere on an unfamiliar lake. But anyway, I just wanted to give mother nature a thank you, yes she put us through hell in December but I think it has paid off. I don't know, u all may disagree with me, but that's how I felt looking back on this very unusual, crazy ice season! Good fishin, LaVoi

[Walleye One]

I would still rather have a more typical winter. Fishing right after Thanksgiving, driving out on the ice by X-mas and fishing until late March.

Now that's a perfect winter!

[Guest]

I agree 100% with Walleye One. Fishing in November is how it should be. But I'm still happy to be out there fishing either way.
Good Fishing, Matt.

[Guest]

Hey as far as I am concerned, nature did just fine by me, I have had the best ice fishing year of my life, although I agree that it would have been nice to have had a little more ice a little earlier, but hey I ain't complaining.

hsolist&MEL

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"The Big One is down there, keep at 'im"

[Havin' Fun]

You guys missed out if you didn't fish in Nov. I fished(boat) most of nov. and it was pretty fun!!! I don't think there will be nearly as much complaining this year come April with ice out. With just 2 feet of ice and the real unlikelihood of much more coming, we will not have to wait til may 1st this year for ice out. Now that will make many of you happy.