Hows the ice? Anyone getting one?

[jimbobcooters]

There is only one good thing about cold weather. Ice fishing! Anyone getting out on the lakes yet? I would like to think that they should be pretty solid.

 

[cobber]

Is the ice thick enough yet? You're a braver man than I!

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Not thick enough in Lawrence county yet, apparently. Somebody fell through and drowned yesterday on some little lake I'd never heard of down here.

 

[joe138]

It was Black Swan Lake, near Norman.

 

[Cameramonkey]

It doesnt get cold enough long enough here in Indiana to be safe. At least not down here in central IN.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Body Of Medora Man Found In Icy Waters - WBIW.com / Local

 

[joe138]

I think WBIW maybe got it wrong (again). Everything I have heard is Black Swan Lake. It is a pay fishing lake near both Medora and Norman. Either way the ice is seldom thich enough for me to get on in this area.

Looks like WBIW has been corrected.

 

[JStarr]

Yeah, I usually go out 2-3 times a week. Ice has been plenty thick enough. Yesterday, it was around 12".

 

[jimbobcooters]

Yeah, I usually go out 2-3 times a week. Ice has been plenty thick enough. Yesterday, it was around 12".

I figured some of the smaller ponds surely would have 5 or 6 inches by now. I guess I ll go check my spot.

 

[RobbyMaQ]

Never been. I figured with the cold surely some lakes and ponds up north should be froze over enough by now? My inexperience must show in that assumption, which is probably why I've never been ice fishing.

 

[Crappiepro]

We went yesterday in Vigo county to a large lake. I drilled several holes along the shallow spots in front of the points.
I wasn't sure and felt un-easy, we walked out to our spot but the ice was cracking. I noticed the ice around hole's I drilled where 2" of frosted ice and 1-2"
was clear ice with 3 to 4" total thickness. There was an open area of water about 100yrds from us.
Needless to say we didnt stay, I wasn't feeling right about the ice.

 

[RobbyMaQ]

We went yesterday in Vigo county to a large lake. I drilled several holes along the shallow spots in front of the points.
I wasn't sure and felt un-easy, we walked out to our spot but the ice was cracking. I noticed the ice around hole's I drilled where 2" of frosted ice and 1-2"
was clear ice with 3 to 4" total thickness. There was an open area of water about 100yrds from us.
Needless to say we didnt stay, I wasn't feeling right about the ice.

I grew up in the niagara falls/buffalo area. Dad says that numerous people would drive their vehicles out onto the ice on the area lakes and rivers when ice fishing. He also said that numerous people would lose their vehicles when the ice cracked & then broke through the ice.

 

[Crappiepro]

I been Ice fishin since I was 7 or 8yrs old. Im 46 now. I never seen driver trucks on the ice here in my area LOL. I doubt if it was thick enuff I do it anyway, we ran a snowmobile on the ice before and that was 8" of ice.
As I thinkin about it, Im glad it doesn't get cold enuff here to have that thick of ice LOL!

 

[MAJB Retired]

I grew up in Michigan (little town about 20 miles south of the Upper Peninsula). We regularly drove the truck on the lake at this time of year. One year we had our shanty about 1/4 mile out on one of the lakes, and decided to switch lakes. We drove out in the morning, loaded the shanty on the truck, drove out about a 1/2 mile on the next lake, and spent the rest of the day chipping through 2 1/2 feet of clear ice.

 

[bwframe]

I'm voting for thaw! I caught a whole lot of fish from the bank a couple years ago in March.

I didn't put enough fish in the freezer last year. I had my last pound last week and I'd been saving it for a while.

 

[bigbaloo95]

Ice here in Lagrange county is 10-12". Has been safe since January it's just been really cold so I haven't been out like I want. Caught so many thru the ice last year the family boycotted fish for a while so I still have a few meals left anyway.

 

[trailrider]

I'll have to check my pond today. I don't ice fish but the wife likes to ice skate. Friend of mine had his pickup on the pond last year(over 12" thick) and we regularly rode atv's on it. I'm not sure it'll get THAT thick this year. Maybe after this next week.

 

[66chevelle]

We went out last Friday. We had 8" in Rushville and 10" in Knightstown. My buddy fished a pond yesterday in Morristown and he said he had 2-4" depending on where he drilled. We caught a lot 7-8" crappie in Knightstown. My buddy caught a 18" large mouth in Rushville.

 

[bocefus78]

I saw people out on Morse Res. on Saturday. I haven't had time to go yet.

 

[yote hunter]

Seen 2 guys on a farm pond up around Muncie today on my way up 69, I was heading to Muncie they were off 69 about 2 miles from Muncie... Looked like they had moved 2 or 3 time trying to get on some fish judging by the foot prints in the snow in the ice....