A-Jay's Inaugural Ice Out / Open Water Countdown Thread ~

[Smelter96]

Small lake near my house is open! Northwest Wisconsin. Everything else still has ice, albeit thinning quickly. But man, seeing this sure made me smile!

[A-Jay]

16 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Finally got the boat launched about an hour ago. Going fishing in the morning. 6poundbass was throwing a line out while I was trolling around getting acclimated to the boat and.......

 

Now THAT's   A W E S O M E ! ! !  

Congrats to you both  . . . .

How'd it go ?

A-Jay 

[12poundbass]

1 hour ago, A-Jay said:

Now THAT's   A W E S O M E ! ! !  

Congrats to you both  . . . .

How'd it go ?

A-Jay 

It went pretty well. Unfortunately we didn’t launch until shortly after 6 and on our lake the no wake time is 6. We idled around for a while, once we got to the main part of the lake I couldn’t resist I opened it up for a few seconds. I didn’t want to press my luck so it was brief, no big deal I’ll run her good tomorrow. I’ll probably do a lot of idling tomorrow looking at the Helix trying to find fishy spots. I was surprised to see the water temp was 52. I’m a little skeptical on that reading, it is a small very shallow lake so maybe. 

[superkamikazee]

Finally got the skunk off, and found some fish. The key was finding the warm water, the north and east side of the pond were 55-57 F, and the west side and south side were 50-52 F. I caught the fish in 55 degree+ water, up very shallow 2-3 ft of water. Also, I was originally at another lake, but water temps were only 50 degrees, so I packed up after a few hours, and drove over to this pond. So glad I did, it was incredibly satisfying to catch these fish even though it was nothing big, but no complaints from me lol. So I'm officially on the board for 2019.

 

2lb Pickerel

 

1.5lb bass

[MIbassyaker]

16 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

Finally got the boat launched about an hour ago. Going fishing in the morning. 6poundbass was throwing a line out while I was trolling around getting acclimated to the boat and.......

 

 

Nice!

14 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

It went pretty well. Unfortunately we didn’t launch until shortly after 6 and on our lake the no wake time is 6. We idled around for a while, once we got to the main part of the lake I couldn’t resist I opened it up for a few seconds. I didn’t want to press my luck so it was brief, no big deal I’ll run her good tomorrow. I’ll probably do a lot of idling tomorrow looking at the Helix trying to find fishy spots. I was surprised to see the water temp was 52. I’m a little skeptical on that reading, it is a small very shallow lake so maybe. 

 

Surface temp of 52 in the evening of a warm-ish day, on a small shallow lake does seem plausible.

 

At this point I'm just waiting for free time. My schedule is absolutely slammed for the next two weeks. Crossing my fingers that water temps at my usual spots don't get too high too quickly now...

 

[MN Fisher]

Are you freaking kidding me?

 

[Glaucus]

33 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Are you freaking kidding me?

 

Mother Nature is unhinged

[MN Fisher]

52 minutes ago, Glaucus said:

Mother Nature is unhinged

What she needs is a good spanking.

[gim]

Is this some kind of mean joke? They’re talking a bomb cyclone blizzard in the Midwest this week with up to 2 feet of snow!

[12poundbass]

We got skunked today. We did a lot of idling seeing what we have down below. I was pretty disappointed with what I found or lack there of. Oh well I’ll hopefully get it figured out this year.

[A-Jay]

Not real excited to see this.

A-Jay

[MN Fisher]

4 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Not real excited to see this.

A-Jay

That's alright - they've upped our predicted snowfall amount to 5-8"

 

[A-Jay]

1 minute ago, MN Fisher said:

That's alright - they've upped our predicted snowfall amount to 5-8"

 

Perhaps turn your calendar pages back down to January.

A-Jay

[BassinCNY]

I checked out Oneida lake today and it looks like another week or so before the ice is gone. Hopefully I'm not being overly optimistic.

[J Francho]

I just saw they're calling for snowy mix on Thursday.  This puts a serious crimp on fishing and skateboarding.

[A-Jay]

Current detrimental fore cast not with standing, we have had serious meltage (well it's a word now) past few days.

A huge percentage of the snow & ice in & around the homestead has been dissipating at an alarming but most desirable rate.  With only six days between now and the predicted / hopeful local open water date, time to re-check the gear and make any & all final fine tune adjustments.

we all know that's just an excuse to go cast in my yard while I wait . . . . . . 

 

A-Jay

[NYWayfarer]

No snow in the immediate forecast for the northern Capital District of NY. Just rain and or WIND, 14 -20mph winds Friday into Saturday. Sunday might have a window for fishing but I am going to stick to Trout fishing. I know they are biting. 

[kenmitch]

@A-Jay dang foul weather still keeping you down! Have you pulled all your hair out yet? 

[A-Jay]

2 hours ago, kenmitch said:

@A-Jay dang foul weather still keeping you down! Have you pulled all your hair out yet? 

I don't have a whole lot left to pull out ~ 

#baldlikecastanza

A-Jay

[12poundbass]

I’ve seen the wintery mix predictions and I’m not too happy about it. It’s 60 here so anything that falls I’d suspect will not stick to the ground/roads. 

 

The other night when  we first heard of this storm I reminded my wife that last year we had an April snow storm. Sure enough she went through her phone and April 17 last year we got a few inches on the white stuff, then a couple weeks later Summer showed up and I was sweating my arse off chasing turkeys, no real spring. Hopefully that doesn’t repeat this year, because I’m way behind the 8 ball with my brown bass plans. ?

[MIbassyaker]

13 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

I’ve seen the wintery mix predictions and I’m not too happy about it. It’s 60 here so anything that falls I’d suspect will not stick to the ground/roads.

 

Looks like we'll miss the worst of it, and it'll rain more than it will snow anyway.

[12poundbass]

1 hour ago, MIbassyaker said:

 

Looks like we'll miss the worst of it, and it'll rain more than it will snow anyway.

For you or me or both? I haven’t watched the weather since Sunday morning. 

[MIbassyaker]

1 hour ago, 12poundbass said:

For you or me or both? I haven’t watched the weather since Sunday morning. 

Me, but yours shouldn't be that much worse. You're supposed to get maybe an inch more snow thursday morning than me, and mine will transition to rain faster. But then it is supposed to rain more late thur/early fri for both of us.

[12poundbass]

5 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

Me, but yours shouldn't be that much worse. You're supposed to get maybe an inch more snow thursday morning than me, and mine will transition to rain faster. But then it is supposed to rain more late thur/early fri for both of us.

I predict a two week spring then straight to summer like last year! 

[A-Jay]

5 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

I predict a two week spring then straight to summer like last year! 

Bite your tongue ! 

I should be hammering brown bass in a week - maybe less.

A-Jay