2008 Ice-out Status

[tisosy11]

Man o man - need some rain and wind to get rid of this ice!

[ratmn218]

ttt

[papabear]

how about more snow?

[Wayne Ek]

Alexandria: Quite a number of the smaller lakes are open. The bigger lakes still have ice sheets floating around. We have 6 to 8 inches of new snow on the ground as I type this.

[ocf1]

Hey agape how are the water levels doing?

[cRaPpiEMaN8265]

any reports in NW wisconsin? My cabin is on a small lake near siren and we are planning on putting the docks and boats in next weekend so i sure hope its open

Ryan

[fishguyd]

Central Mn lakes are basically all open with an exception here/there and the crappies are going good!

[Nick Kuhn]

 Originally Posted By: cRaPpiEMaN8265

any reports in NW wisconsin? My cabin is on a small lake near siren and we are planning on putting the docks and boats in next weekend so i sure hope its open

Ryan

My dad was up Thursday to have the water turned on by Turtle Lake and the small to medium lakes in the area were open. Siren should be or at least be nearly open.

[yourresort]

Well the 12"+ of snow we received on the west end of Otter Tail Lake this weekend will slow down the ice off a little, but there is still hope that all will be off by this weekend. I would hate to have my dock crew here with nothing to do. Also it will make it a opener/dock-in weekend for all of the Cities comuters.

This late Ice off should make the mid May Walleye fishing Great on Otter Tail. I would guess the prime walleye temp (61) will come some time after the second weekend.

Good luck to all getting their docks in this weekend.(Hopefully)