I live near the Colorado River in Arizona and all my ice fishing is "The other way". The only way I get to see "hard water" is to go north in the winter and this desert rat can't take too much snow.

i need the stump juice just to forget about this yr!!!!!!!!!
can we say this yr is over and start the next 1 now?

Hmmmm....sure sounds like we better commence to brewing sum Stump Joose right smartly. Bullwinkle and dah boys ought to be barnstorming dah bush soon so we will be pitching camp in a week or two to hunt 'em down. When not hunting, we'll be tending dah brew! LOL!

lmao.....hey wayne, does that help bring in bullwinkle er does it help ya get thru the time???/lol

it's cold enough for the snow to stick on the ground and there's ice on the shallow ponds in the morning

hey kinger, we need ta keep them loose and warm some how.....lol

I have been using some Evan Williams bourbon with a touch of honey. Warms up the bones real good.

Well it's started. I hear reports of people ice fishing here in NY. I guess you won't have to do it the other way.

have reports coming in the U.P. of mi. and a few shallower lakes in northern lower

Some Ice in the LaCrosse area but IMHO!! it's still not safe due to a warming trend right now!!!

I agree, it's been to warm right now we have 40 degrees. Deep freeze coming in on tuesday lows in single didgits.

reports of guys getting out on the ice in the U.P. and in some lakes in the northern lower of michigan

All kinds of ice here in the La Crosse, WI area.

Plenty of ice on the smaller bodies of water.

still waiting........the weather can't make up it's mind...gets cold enough ta start making ice and then it warms up for a couple of days with rain and what ice we had is gone

I've been gone from the site for a bit...but we were out icing don't yah know. First trip out was Dec. 5th where we had 6" of ice. It's been very mild here this winter, but the weather was cold enough at night to make ice. We have over 12" now, but lots of slush because of the extremely mild weather. The walleye and perch bite has been good and just waiting now for the lake trout season to open. Good luck with everyone else that can get out...even though that excludes our good friend Kinger. HAHAHA!

Hey ya ole coonstail, Wayne! How ya been???

Yea Wayne long time no see (hear)

Howdy Pete & wellsley! Yah it's been a while...but just too darn busy with everything else to spend some time here on the site. Nice to see & read that you guys are still around! I will try to check in more often.