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

[12poundbass]

24 minutes ago, Log Catcher said:

I thought you all knew Minnesota was created for people that hate summer.

Give us northerners a month and some humid 80 degree days and we’ll be wishing for fall. We’re never happy! ?

[A-Jay]

1 minute ago, 12poundbass said:

Give us northerners a month and some humid 80 degree days and we’ll be wishing for fall. We’re never happy! ?

Speak for yourself there Iron Balz ~ 

A-Jay

[Ksam1234]

Going to attempt to go out again tomorrow, high of 68 degrees today with 20-30 mph winds, hopefully warms water some more. Tomorrow should be 61 and 10-15 mph winds so that’s perfect.  Hoping I catch something!!! 

[MN Fisher]

3 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Give us northerners a month and some humid 80 degree days and we’ll be wishing for fall. We’re never happy! ?

 

Just now, A-Jay said:

Speak for yourself there Iron Balz ~ 

A-Jay

It's when we have the 100^o+ heat index days that I want fall...we had far too many of those last year.

[12poundbass]

Just now, A-Jay said:

Speak for yourself there Iron Balz ~ 

A-Jay

I’m not a big humidity guy. Dry 80 heat I’m good with. You’d think after working outside for around 20 years especially the past 9 in my current profession I’d be fine. It doesn’t help when you have to wear jeans, steel toes, cotton shirts, and safety vest on those hot humid days. Oh well I survive every year. 

[A-Jay]

Before this most recent weather event I was thinking I had a week maybe 10 days at the most to open water.

  Now, I can see May 1st being more realistic. 

 

BTW - I have to admit this thread has garnered far more attention than I expected.

A-Jay

3 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

I’m not a big humidity guy. Dry 80 heat I’m good with. You’d think after working outside for around 20 years especially the past 9 in my current profession I’d be fine. It doesn’t help when you have to wear jeans, steel toes, cotton shirts, and safety vest on those hot humid days. Oh well I survive every year. 

I hear ya - and I'm sort of the same way - do not like hot Nights at all.

 But super cold just makes me Mad - like wet hen.

A-Jay

 

[TnRiver46]

20 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Something like 35 Oak Trees - 

Bad decision looking back.

A-Jay

HAhahhaha. I grew up in a house like that. Momma always made us rake up all the acorns before she mowed the grass (aka dry dirt in the shade)

[A-Jay]

16 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

HAhahhaha. I grew up in a house like that. Momma always made us rake up all the acorns before she mowed the grass (aka dry dirt in the shade)

That's part of our standard pre-mowing operations as well.

A-Jay

[Glaucus]

2 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

Give us northerners a month and some humid 80 degree days and we’ll be wishing for fall. We’re never happy! ?

I wish it was 80 and humid all the time as opposed to ever having a winter 

[MN Fisher]

2 minutes ago, Glaucus said:

I wish it was 80 and humid all the time as opposed to ever having a winter 

80 I'll take - you can keep the humidity though.

[TnRiver46]

17 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

80 I'll take - you can keep the humidity though.

It slows processes down to a crawl 

[Glaucus]

20 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

80 I'll take - you can keep the humidity though.

Not a fan either but I'd still take that over the cold

[12poundbass]

31 minutes ago, Glaucus said:

Not a fan either but I'd still take that over the cold

You can dress for the cold and stay warm. I was sweating this winter when it was -5 and I was snow blowing. When it’s hot and especially humid there’s nothing you can do to cool down besides stop working and get in the A/C

[Glaucus]

2 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

You can dress for the cold and stay warm. I was sweating this winter when it was -5 and I was snow blowing. When it’s hot and especially humid there’s nothing you can do to cool down besides stop working and get in the A/C

But the most important factor here is winter means ice which means no casting a line, and that is just the worst.

[12poundbass]

6 minutes ago, Glaucus said:

But the most important factor here is winter means ice which means no casting a line, and that is just the worst.

I’m with you on that. I’m not a fan of ice fishing at all! I’ll do it for my son, and now that I live on a lake I’m curious what kind of toothy critter I can pull out, but I still dislike it.

[Log Catcher]

9 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

Give us northerners a month and some humid 80 degree days and we’ll be wishing for fall. We’re never happy! ?

I guess people in Minnesota and Michigan are never happy because you only have two seasons. Winter and July.

[MN Fisher]

8 minutes ago, Log Catcher said:

I guess people in Minnesota and Michigan are never happy because you only have two seasons. Winter and July.

Got that straight.

 

"As it stands right now the latest recorded measurable snow in Minnesota remains at 1.5 inches at Mizpah in Koochiching County on June 4, 1935 and the earliest documented snow in Minnesota is a trace that fell at the Duluth Airport on August 31, 1949."

 

So July IS the only snow-free month in Minne-snow-ta.

[Glaucus]

Cold, windy day today, again. Tomorrow's high is 37* with 1-3" of snow in the forecast. In Illinois. In April. Not unheard of, but not right either.

 

But my partner and I got out there for 45 minutes this evening. Got one little fat guy to take the Z-Man spinnerbait.

 

Yes, those glasses are upside down, and no, she wouldn't let me fix them. I also got lectured by her about my muddy shoes and how I'm going to get them on mommy's floor.

 

[MN Fisher]

3 minutes ago, Glaucus said:

Yes, those glasses are upside down, and no, she wouldn't let me fix them. I also got lectured by her about my muddy shoes and how I'm going to get them on mommy's floor.

Rule one in a household where the women outnumber the men...just say 'Yes, dear/sweetie' and let it go.

 

What a cutie.

[A-Jay]

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A-Jay 

[soflabasser]

13 hours ago, A-Jay said:

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A-Jay 

Saw the video. It is crazy that the lakes are still frozen in your area. Hopefully the snow melts soon you so can catch those big smallmouth bass.

[Way north bass guy]

Finally pulled the rig down to my house garage from it’s hibernation at my shop. And just checked this afternoon and the entire sound here is about 90% open water, so I guess I’ll be rigging up stuff this week and FINALLY splashing next weekend! No bass here for a while yet ( seasons closed), but lots of big trout and pike season opens in 11 days ( not that I’m counting or anything ?). 

[A-Jay]

Warm air temps had me on the road checking for open water today.  Super close on a couple of fan favorites.   Might be tomorrow.  That would be so good.  I'll be checking again early morning.   If not Monday, Tuesday for sure.  Rigs ready either way.

   One bit of a bummer is that my PC suffered a catastrophic failure last week, so I can't load, edit or post any pics or video until I replace it.  May see reports without both for a while.  I'll still shoot just have to have a mass posting at a later date.  Probobly going to be a week or two anyway.

Here we go.

A-Jay 

[TnRiver46]

On 4/12/2019 at 2:20 PM, 12poundbass said:

You can dress for the cold and stay warm. I was sweating this winter when it was -5 and I was snow blowing. When it’s hot and especially humid there’s nothing you can do to cool down besides stop working and get in the A/C

There is one thing you can do............ “Lieutenant Dan!!!! Ice cream!!!”

[12poundbass]

14 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Warm air temps had me on the road checking for open water today.  Super close on a couple of fan favorites.   Might be tomorrow.  That would be so good.  I'll be checking again early morning.   If not Monday, Tuesday for sure.  Rigs ready either way.

   One bit of a bummer is that my PC suffered a catastrophic failure last week, so I can't load, edit or post any pics or video until I replace it.  May see reports without both for a while.  I'll still shoot just have to have a mass posting at a later date.  Probobly going to be a week or two anyway.

Here we go.

A-Jay 

Good to hear! Looking forward to seeing those big northern brown bass surface on Lake Menderchuck.