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| What date are you guys thinking? My guess. March 24th |
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| Nope.... 
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Yearly Average is all I can go by and the yearly average for Ice out on Tonka is April 15th. Some Bays on the Mound side will open sooner, some great early season crappie fishing over there in the murky shallow bays that warm first. |
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| March 24th is looking better and better!!!!! |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | hchad - 3/13/2012 9:36 AM
March 24th is looking better and better!!!!!
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I am going to say April 1st... |
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Location: MN | Historical Ice-Out Dates:
http://www.freshwater.org/images/stories/PDFs/2010a.pdf |
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WOW, in the year 2000 ice out was march 18th... That is amazing!!! |
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| Ice went out March 11th in 1878 on Tonka..... must be that global warming |
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Location: Maplewood, MN | I'm gonna say March 28 |
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| The day before my boat goes in. |
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| Nice Bob- I guess I'll see you out there March 25th.... |
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Location: Victoria,MN | The 26th . Hchad is itching to get the new ride wet!
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| I thought Hchad was a little overly optimistic when he through that date out last month but man its hard to say it wont be now. That being said I had dinner at Sunset's on Sunday night and people were still kite Boarding on Wayzata bay so its not like its going to be gone by saturday but you have to think shortly there after... |
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| I miss the old days when they used to let the bait shop put out a junker on wayzata bay and people would bet when it would fall through,,,think how much money we could raise for stocking |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | happy hooker - 3/13/2012 3:19 PM
I miss the old days when they used to let the bait shop put out a junker on wayzata bay and people would bet when it would fall through,,,think how much money we could raise for stocking
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What? that would be fantastic fun! we should go back to that!!! lol... if I were only born a few years sooner... |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | happy hooker - 3/13/2012 3:19 PM
I miss the old days when they used to let the bait shop put out a junker on wayzata bay and people would bet when it would fall through,,,think how much money we could raise for stocking
They still do that in Eveleth Mn. every Year,.....
Tonka Ice Off 2012 :: March 24, at 4:13 pm. !
Vermilion Lake April 10, 5:55 pm.
Man!! Ya gotta love Global warming ....
Jerome |
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Location: Minnetonka | Top H2O - 3/13/2012 11:28 PM
Man!! Ya gotta love Global warming ....
Global warming = bucktail burning
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Location: deephaven mn | walked on this ice yesterday, it appears the 30th is the day the big bays will open |
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Location: Eden Prairie & Pine Island | I think Hooker should set his boat out there and we'll have a contest to see when he can drive it off! |
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| GMAN
Ill stand out there and SWIM off if the money is right!!!!!!! |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | Don't forget that Europe has had its coldest winter on record. Hundreds of people have frozen to death and entire towns have been evacuated over much of eastern Europe. Alaska also had a terribly cold winter. Technically, there was no "global warming". The warm weather in parts of North America has been offset by the extreme cold on the other side of the northern hemisphere. Globally, it is basically an average winter with some regions very warm and some regions very cold. But then again the global warming people claim that the "warming" may actually make things colder. So, if it gets colder or warmer, they are covered. And its all our fault and only a lot of taxes will fix it. It seems there is "global warming" every time the sun comes up.
Remember last fall when the predictions were for a very cold winter with high snowfalls for the midwest and eastern parts of the USA? The forecasters couldn't have been more wrong. They can't predict weather patterns just a month out. But somehow we're supposed to believe predictions that go out many years? The only thing certain about weather patterns, and the resulting climate, is that it will change over time. Might get warmer and might get colder. But it will change. |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | We have Lakes opening now in the Mankato area. They are launching boats on some lakes already |
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Location: minneapolis | Speaking of the good 'ole days.............. I recall the Holiday / Johnson Crappie contest being rescheduled numerous times becuse the ice wasn't yet gone in late April.
Whatever happened to that yearly Spring Ritual of the Crappie contest on Tonka? That was the laugh of the year at the boat launch watching the rookies back their rigs for the first time |
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Location: New Hope MN | With Sunday & Monday having highs at 77, i think the ice will be gone. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | dtaijo174 - 3/15/2012 8:28 AM
With Sunday & Monday having highs at 77, i think the ice will be gone.
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Its not so much the heat that is going to do the trick, but high winds and rain will really help the process along. We are supposed to get a lot of rain over the next week and there should be some good winds as well. We all know the little bays are going first as they always do. In the main lake there is always a huge chunk that seems to sit there forever after everything else is open. So The more heat, rain and winds we get the better. |
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Location: deephaven mn | Just got bit by a misquito ....... ice will go out with in the week. march 16th |
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Location: Victoria,MN | Danged misquitos (and mosquitos) are everywhere! I need to revise my prediction if I may, the 22nd. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | kap - 3/16/2012 7:30 PM
Just got bit by a misquito ....... ice will go out with in the week. march 16th
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | There's still well over 6" at Maynard's before the wind blew it off shore yesterday. April 1st for "official" iceoff (main lake). |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | The ice went out on Lake Harriet today. With rain and more warm weather coming it shouldn't be too much longer. |
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| any update on tonka??? everyday its been hot and most days its a hurricane with wind,,two combos that move ice fast |
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | Just drove by Excelsior Bay and it's open and it appears that it's open all the way out to BI and beyond. There may be a few icebergs out there, but it's defiantly navigable. |
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| Crystal Bay opened yesterday as did Wayzata. If they have not declared Ice out yet it shjould be today with the rain and wind we got last night... |
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Location: West Metro, MN | Yep, looks open to me. Saw a boat in the middle of Gray's bay this morning and 2 rigs parked in the launch at Gray's. |
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Location: Maine Township, MN | Mojo1269 - 3/20/2012 8:24 AM
Crystal Bay opened yesterday as did Wayzata. If they have not declared Ice out yet it shjould be today with the rain and wind we got last night...
Yep! |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | jasond - 3/20/2012 10:13 AM
Yep, looks open to me. Saw a boat in the middle of Gray's bay this morning and 2 rigs parked in the launch at Gray's.
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Drove past Excelsior bay this morning, saw a guy on a jet ski whipping around. Its about that time |
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Location: North Metro, MN | Saw on the news yesterday that they officially declared ice-off Tonka |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | I saw four boats out fishing in Wayzata Bay today. Can't wait for my turn!
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Location: Oklahoma | happy hooker - 3/13/2012 3:19 PM
I miss the old days when they used to let the bait shop put out a junker on wayzata bay and people would bet when it would fall through,,,think how much money we could raise for stocking
My Dad (now lives in Texas) lived out by Minnetonka in the early 70s. I asked him about this; he said it was a hoot. Lots of press in the papers about guessing the date down to the minute....Thanks for dragging up a memory for him and sharing some stories with me. |
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Minnetonka Ice Out????