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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | It's looking dicey for ice out for the general opener up here. It actually snowed again last night. We have a couple warm days on tap then back to below freezing at night running into opener week. What say you? |
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Location: SE, WI. | I’d Say, Drive South. Lakes Wide open…….Muskies open in SE WI. May 7! JD
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | May have to do that. |
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Location: SE, WI. | You can jump in my boat. Oh Boy….Creature Competition;) JD |
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Location: oswego, il | jdsplasher - 4/21/2022 10:13 AM
You can jump in my boat. Oh Boy….Creature Competition;) JD
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| Todd!!! Who can forget growing up in the 70's in Chicago. Saturday nights at 10:30pm, with some Home Run Inn pizza! Kdawg |
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Location: PA Angler | Find some open water and fish. Let us know how it goes. |
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| Looking out my window, I think it will be close. Couple weeks ago, I picked April 30 for ice out on the lake where I live at the bar on the same lake. Not looking promising at this point but, if we get some warm weather with all the remaining snow, we could get a good push from the three creeks that feed the chain. The run off and the resulting flow in the creeks means as much as warm weather. |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Doesn't look good. Another blow for those businesses that rely on tourism.
The N opener as lost a lot of luster in the past 10 years or so. Used to be steady stream of boats heading north on the Friday before opener. Not so much anymore. |
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| ghoti - 4/21/2022 11:27 AM
Doesn't look good. Another blow for those businesses that rely on tourism.
The N opener as lost a lot of luster in the past 10 years or so. Used to be steady stream of boats heading north on the Friday before opener. Not so much anymore.
Couple years ago, we had more boats on the chain where I live than normal for the opener. We are a few miles east of Rhinelander and I was told at the landing a lot of the lakes north of us were iced in yet. I was working as a volunteer for Clean Boats/Clean Water and talked to two guys who had planned on fishing further north but couldn't due to ice. They were just happy to find open water. That year ice out on our lake was May 3, couple days before opener. |
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Location: central Wisconsin | What is the ice depth in Vilas county? I've heard around twenty inches, is the ice rotten yet?
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Our crime may scare off the tourists and our governors may have their own penitentiary wing but fishing is still better than chaining myself to the desk
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| I drove across Wisconsin on highway 8, today. Didn't see any ice covered lakes until just west of Rhinelander. From there, east, lakes were ice covered until I got about 30 miles from the Michigan border. Most of the ice looked pretty mushy, but there were a couple, that looked like they were going to be a while before they open up. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | We’re pretty concerned our lakes won’t be open for the walleye opener may 14th! We’ve seen it before but it’s not common. |
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| I'll be ready...
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Location: SE, WI. | ToddM - 4/21/2022 10:37 AM jdsplasher - 4/21/2022 10:13 AM You can jump in my boat. Oh Boy….Creature Competition;) JD Todd; I do like the Black color of your creature.....But prefer This size!
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Still 24"+ of ice on V. The next 10 nights up here will be under 30* a couple of nights will be down into the teens.
Give me some of that global warming ! |
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| Top H2O - 4/22/2022 6:12 PM
Still 24"+ of ice on V. The next 10 nights up here will be under 30* a couple of nights will be down into the teens.
Give me some of that global warming !
Climate change. My sister in SE Alaska has tulips that blossomed almost two weeks ago. They are worried because living off grid, a lot of their water comes from snow melt and the mountain behind them had little snow this winter. And what it had is already melting, where it used to stay until mid July. |
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| I can tell you guy's up North are getting hammered because everything has gone North of me here in the front range, it misses me but get wind and wind and more wind it's been in the 80's the last two day's but cooling to the 50's this weekend. After a real dry fall we got a snow storm every week from late Dec. on then April nothing I got 17 drops of rain all month. The driest April since 1963 everyday there's a fire somewhere in the mountains or on the plains. My neighbor told me "I didn't know we lived in Wyoming"! |
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| Well the girls from the Ice House circuit must of had a banner year! |
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| Given how much has changed on the lake where I live in the last 24 hours, I feel pretty sure the ice will be gone by the end of the month. Really getting rotten, opening up along the shoreline and channel has widened a lot. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Good news for sure! I'm putting the new MarCum on the boat in a few minutes. |
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Location: NW WI | Over here in Washburn/Burnette/Sawyer all our flowing water has been open for awhile, nothings moved out of the lakes into em yet but I still like to jump in and pretend. A few of our heavily spring fed lakes are 40-60% open. Most other bodies have open edges. We've got some defaults if need be. |
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Location: oswego, il | I seen a video on FB drilling a hole in lake Minoqua in shorts and the ice measured 17". |
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| On Thursday, Silver Lake and Wabikon Lake(between Leona and Crandon), looked soft, but were still white, and locked in shore to shore. When going back to Minnesota today, I noticed they were both dark gray, and ringed with water. The sun was shining, and a warm wind was blasting up from the south. The lakes glistened like they were covered with diamonds. Definitely doing some damage. Should ice out soon. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The big winds made a difference, we'll see where there's an ice line opening day, if there is. |
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| Lake I am on is almost ice free today. As Steve said, the wind did a number on it. Across the lake, what ice is left is piled against the north shore. Migrating ducks are suddenly everywhere |
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| The wind can really suck EXCEPT when you need ice to be removed. (nothing like high sun angle and lots of wind)
My grandparents used to say it was always nicer up north in May then June. |
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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | Every year for walleye opener I go to lake vermilion although I’m really doubtful it’s going to be thawed out. I heard a report that on Saturday there was still 40” of ice on a Ely area lake. Doubt vermilions that bad but it looks like I might be fishing around home or heading down to Iowa to musky fish |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Woke up to snow on the ground again today. Local weather says teens tonight. 50's over the weekend. |
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| sworrall - 4/26/2022 6:46 AM
Woke up to snow on the ground again today. Local weather says teens tonight. 50's over the weekend.
After tonight, it looks like there may be a light at the end of the tunnel for our area. I hope it is not a train.
Will be interesting to see what late ice out does to things like crappies moving to shallower water in the spring. Last year for musky opener, had a lot of weed growth.
Wonder if that will be delayed? Always interesting to see how weather impacts natural cycles. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | If it remains as cool and cloudy VS average as it has, the weed growth will be reduced for sure. Crappies will be in the backs of the mud bottom bays and heading to the shorelines first on the North face within a few days of ice out. I like late ice-out for walleyes, should be really good. |
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Location: Walker, MN | The problem with extended forecasts is that after 5-6 days, they tend to just throw the average temp for that date at you. 5-10 days out always looks closer to average temps...it's an educated guess. |
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Location: Duluth | Was none to pleased to see the white stuff this morning, that and its going to blow NE for the next 7 days. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Ogandrews - 4/25/2022 10:08 PM
Every year for walleye opener I go to lake vermilion although I’m really doubtful it’s going to be thawed out. I heard a report that on Saturday there was still 40” of ice on a Ely area lake. Doubt vermilions that bad but it looks like I might be fishing around home or heading down to Iowa to musky fish
There is almost no sign of ice melting anywhere up this way. Just a little in some current areas. And not a good forecast for melting. Even if it does melt, we're going to see 34 degree water temps. |
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| Is the earth tipping on its axis? Cold weather in the Midwest while the north pole experienced temps 50 above average and the Antarctic set a record of 70 degrees above average, warmest temp ever recorded in the Antarctic.
Really weird weather. |
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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | Kirby Budrow - 4/26/2022 11:09 AM
Ogandrews - 4/25/2022 10:08 PM
Every year for walleye opener I go to lake vermilion although I’m really doubtful it’s going to be thawed out. I heard a report that on Saturday there was still 40” of ice on a Ely area lake. Doubt vermilions that bad but it looks like I might be fishing around home or heading down to Iowa to musky fish
There is almost no sign of ice melting anywhere up this way. Just a little in some current areas. And not a good forecast for melting. Even if it does melt, we're going to see 34 degree water temps.
With as cold as this is it makes me wonder if there will still be prespawn fish on V by the time that opener comes in June. I know other years that have had a cold spring that I’ve still seen fish paired up a couple days before opener but I haven’t been around for one this cold. |
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| Looks like next week in nw wis. is going to be beautiful, temps in the mid 60's and dry. Great for the opener, 65 degrees and sunny. Of course it could change but warmer weather is on the way. Walleyes on the gravel shorelines, 5-8ft of water, on slow moving swimbaits is the plan. Kdawg |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The winds will help a lot, 35mph today and 40s. We need that warm weather next week, there are quite a few lakes locked in solid still. |
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| sworrall - 4/30/2022 11:26 AM
The winds will help a lot, 35mph today and 40s. We need that warm weather next week, there are quite a few lakes locked in solid still.
Wind is really kicking today. Spent about hour and a half putting in neighbor's dock and both his son in law and I took water over top of waders when hit by waves. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Wet socks suck ! |
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| Top H2O - 4/30/2022 7:20 PM
Wet socks suck !
Ha! Didn't get quite that far. When I took the waders off, looked like I should have been wearing Depends.
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| 71 degrees and sun for today. I was at the local bait shop yesterday and learned the water temp on my chain was at 49. Boat traffic is heavy already. Have a good season, here we go! Kdawg |
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