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Location: Greenfield, WI | Weather was TOOOOOO Nice to stay home so Darrel "DH Buc" Mack and I had to go out to Smokey's Muskie Shop on Pewaukee Lake to stare at the ice to help it melt!
The edges are opening up, and the lake ice is getting mighty dark.
With a little bit of rain and some wind and some luck the ice might be out this week.
Last week I saw the start of the spring ritual of dozens of muskies in the hole below the dam on Okauchee Lake, along highway 16. The best viewing platform is on the bridge on the frontage road just downstream from the dam, especially on sunny days.
I talked to a friend up on North Twin who said that there was 30"+ of ice on the lake yet.
I pulled the boat out of the garage today and fired up the Yamaha today. What a wonderful sound!
Spring is coming!
Edited by Steve Van Lieshout 4/6/2008 7:57 PM
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Location: The desert | I'll be fishing walleyes in my musky hole tuesday afternoon.....Maybe one would like to try a walleye jig? |
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| ice on my local pond went out...today actually.
this rain will accelerate the rest around here.
obviously the river's been open for quite awhile.
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Location: oswego, il | Hopefuly it melts by the third week of june when I go to the TFF. I will probably have to break ice to get out though.  |
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| Been fishin 2 local Oneida County lakes for crappies pretty religously lately and saw 1 pig on each lake...just a brutal reminder that there is still over 2feet of ice in many spots:( but hey, the crappies are fine haha |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | My soon-to-be home water of LSC is open and boats are out. The upper Mississippi R still has ice on it above Brainerd at Mom and Dad's house, but it's on it's way.
Here in western WA we don't freeze. I've not seen hard water in a good few years. |
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Location: Appleton,WI | Drove home yesterday from the U.P. lots of trucks still driving on northern wisconsin lakes still.2 weeks ago trucks were still driving on winnebago but now the shoreline has started to go. |
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Location: Southeast Wisconsin | Drove over the bridge between okauchee and lower okauchee this morning and theres no ice as far as I can see..The bay I live in still has a little ice yet,but it should be gone by today..
25 days till the opener!! |
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Location: Land of the Musky | Minnetonka looks rotten! Many of those small back yard ponds are free of ice near the edges. I say another week or two here in MN... |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Except for some open edges, I've still got ice.
And we're supposed to get more snow today. 
Edited by sorenson 4/7/2008 8:48 AM
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Location: McFarland | Lakes Monona and Waubesa look to be pretty much open, a little slush floating around Waubesa but the wind was pushing it all out. |
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Location: Minnesota | Tacklebooty - Northern Minnesota may have more than a week or two to go. Still driving trucks on the lakes ice fishing up here. And we just got dumped on over the weekend and now have about 2 feet of snow on some of our muskie lakes. The snow actually may help the ice go out with all of the wet heavy snow weighting the ice down and pushing water up on top. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | brmusky-I heard about the 2 feet of snow this morning in Bemidji! Nothing like spring snow! It piles up real quick. |
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| The ice has been off the lakes around here for about a month now and ive been fishing a couple times. The weather has been very nice with lots of 50s and 60s and even some 70s.
Hope the ice and snow up north goes away soon.
Edited by Ajohnson 4/7/2008 10:37 AM
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Location: Lake Vermilion Tower, MN | We'll be lucky to be fishing open water by the Walleye opener up here on Lake Vermilion. We just got 21 inches of snow over the weekend. Still more than 30 inches of ice to melt, along with all that snow.
Highs in the low 40's for the next week and more snow.
With only 4 weeks to go until our fishing
opener, I'm not very optomistic. I'm just hoping it's gone by the Muskie opener in June.
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| Minoccqua and Big Arbor Vitae in northern WI had well over 30" of ice on them 1+ weeks ago. It'll be interesting to see if the ice is gone on all lakes in northern WI by the 5/3 opener (not for musky...this year). |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | We drove about 17 miles of trolling yesterday....had to dodge some 'bergs, but otherwise the lakes on the (beautiful) Fox Chain were clear of ice by the end of the day. Was in Madison on Saturday, saw what looked like a LOT of ice on whichever lake is on the coast of the U.
*and btw, fishing sucked yesterday. nary a rip. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Was up at my place in Land O Lakes this past weekend. Our lake had 28-30" of ice easy. I was darn near the auger handles. About 8-10" of snow on top of that yet as well. I will say that the only thing that looked promising was that the first 12" of ice looked to be honeycombing pretty well. |
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Location: Not where I wanna be! | Most lakes are open here in Iowa, cept the IGL's.
i netted a 38 for a friend the other night and will be hitting it tonight.
sorry to rub salt in the wounds fellas, but this is one of the only times of year where a guy can catch muskies in Iowa..... Once that water heats up it gets very tough.... |
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| I swear it ain't never gonna melt!!!!!!! |
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| Well this certainly bites...over a foot predicted for NW Wisconsin between Thursday PM and Saturday. Winter Storm Warning posted... |
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Location: The Yahara Chain | Slamr - 4/7/2008 1:38 PM
Was in Madison on Saturday, saw what looked like a LOT of ice on whichever lake is on the coast of the U.
That would be Mendota.
Monona looked wide open when I drove by yesterday. |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Pewaukee Lake is wide open now. Does that look nice!!! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | At this rate I might have to open in S WI...we are iced in tight and winter remains flat mean here until next Tuesday. It's going to need to be warm fast and straight through to get rid of the ice, but I have faith... |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Newton Reservoir opened up yesterday; I may try to sneak up there this weekend. Pineview is still a few days off I suspect.
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Location: Northwoods | Ice about half out on Flambeau River. Snow, wind, yuk!!! |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | I was in Cable, WI yesterday for work, there is still 36-inches of ice on most lakes in that area and they are getting a blizzard there right now. They may not have open water for the regular season opener.
Locally around Chippewa Falls, the rivers are open some lakes have started around shore, but there is a LOT of ice to go yet. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | "It's going to need to be warm fast and straight through to get rid of the ice, but I have faith..."
Ditto....I've put the pier in the same day the ice sank (literally). That's been the friday before the walleye opener. Warm weather is coming next week, but will it be enough to melt the 16-20" we could get on the Wis/Mich boarder...then the 26-30" of ice under it? We'll see, but you gotta have faith. |
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