Winter 2023-2024

[gim]

2 hours ago, casts_by_fly said:

It’s is currently 62 degrees on November 17th as I sit in a tree

62 is too warm for deer hunting.  I didn't have any temps that warm during our 9 day season but we had a couple days around 50+ degrees.  Anything above about 50 during the daytime really limits daytime deer movement.  Plus you have to worry about a deer spoiling too if you shoot one.

[A-Jay]

3 hours ago, casts_by_fly said:

It’s is currently 62 degrees on November 17th as I sit in a tree in just a hooded sweatshirt and undershirt. I dont hate the warm but it certainly isn’t right or normal right now. 

I washed & waxed my truck yesterday ~ 

Might not be doing that again For A-While.

A-Jay

[casts_by_fly]

25 minutes ago, gimruis said:

62 is too warm for deer hunting.  I didn't have any temps that warm during our 9 day season but we had a couple days around 50+ degrees.  Anything above about 50 during the daytime really limits daytime deer movement.  Plus you have to worry about a deer spoiling too if you shoot one.

it was like an early season September hunt. Except I was in a September stand while the deer were in November moods, aka nada. 

[Way north bass guy]

1 hour ago, A-Jay said:

I washed & waxed my truck yesterday ~ 

Might not be doing that again For A-While.

A-Jay

Don’t you have a new one coming any day now? Send that “piece of junk” back to the dealership with all your filth, let them deal with it 😏. 

[throttleplate]

its 7 am saturday and i stepped outside and the frost tickled my nipples, its a warm frost so we are packing the car to go fishing at the dam. First stop scheels for minnows.

Hmm wear long johns under my pants or bring a extra pair of cold weather pants to put on for when the sun goes down?

[A-Jay]

We've been getting HAMMERED with snow for two days now.

This is the first significant snow is the season,

and it's starting off with a bang !

A foot plus and it's still coming down.

Been waiting to clean it up

Looks like I'll keep waiting . . . . .

A-Jay

[gim]

No snow here, but its cold.  10 degrees when left the house this morning.  Exactly what ice fisherman are hoping for - good hard freeze before any snow.

 

Warmer temps on the way later this week though.  And not much snow in the forecast either.

 

 

[12poundbass]

17* here and about 1/2” of snow. The wind is ripping right through me! 🥶

[A-Jay]

Cold here and PL-enty of snow.

Clearing paths to the Big Dog House and the 'Zone'.

(where they do their business)

Makes getting around MUCH EASIER.

Especially as this stuff starts to add up.

It's like living in a snow globe for 4 months. 

A-Jay

 

 

[MN Fisher]

So far all we've gotten is a dusting - even the tips of the grass are sticking up through it.

[Jar11591]

Yikes. Now I feel silly for complaining about the few inches we’ve gotten so far. Everything is gone by noon. Nightly lows are really getting down there though. 

[T-Billy]

@A-Jay, you have good taste in hats my friend. 😉

[casts_by_fly]

its awful here.  Something like 32 degrees and flurries!  That's just not right and I'm not ready for it.  Though the 20 mph winds are actually awful.  They'll go away tomorrow though and be good for a while.

[TnRiver46]

And the first day of winter is 3 weeks away

[T-Billy]

Going muskie fishing tomorrow. Low 20's to start, low 30's to finish. Blowin 15-30. Should be fun. 😂

 

[MN Fisher]

[Susky River Rat]

This is such a depressing thread 

[gim]

6 minutes ago, Susky River Rat said:

This is such a depressing thread 

Lol not if your into ice fishing.  All kinds of people here are giddy that we've had single digit lows the past few nights.  They are tooting their horns about "early ice" coming up.

[T-Billy]

4 minutes ago, Susky River Rat said:

This is such a depressing thread 

All about perspective. My guide buddy's clients went 10 for 16 yesterday, and 3 for 10 today in conditions similar to what I described above. Hooking 26 musky in two days tends to make the conditions seem not so bad. I sure hope they're still chewing when I get there tomorrow. Gonna be a rough day if they ain't.

[gim]

5 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

All about perspective.

I tend to think its more about results, or potential results.

 

Let's take muskie fishing, as you describe it, with the potential to land large fish in a boat using open water fishing tackle to sitting on a bucket over 3 inches of sketchy ice waiting for a palm sized crappie to show up, drinking beer.

 

That's my perspective.

[RipzLipz]

18 minutes ago, Susky River Rat said:

This is such a depressing thread 

Just be happy you don’t live in Atlanta. Snowmageddon 2014, less than 3" of snow brought the city to a standstill. They had something like 4 snowplows total.

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/history/atlanta-snowmageddon-2014-anniversary/85-bcf15186-4d02-4a47-8025-5a2cc1f3fdac

4 minutes ago, gimruis said:

sitting on a bucket over 3 inches of sketchy ice waiting for a palm sized crappie to show up, drinking beer.

Is that a cry for help or just letting someone know you’ll be lying passed out face down in the snow soon, with no crappie & will need a ride home before dark, if possible? 🤣🤣

[Susky River Rat]

@T-Billy 26 musky is two-three seasons around here. 1 if you are live scoping them 

 

@gimruis I love ice fishing. It’s just so hit and miss here. Season could be a week. Could be a month or none at all.

 

@RipzLipz I think there is more reasons than that to be happy no to live there 

[MN Fisher]

39 minutes ago, RipzLipz said:

Just be happy you don’t live in Atlanta. Snowmageddon 2014, less than 3" of snow brought the city to a standstill. They had something like 4 snowplows total.

As opposed to the Blizzard of '91 here...30" of snow in three days, and I had to drive 20 miles each way all three days to get to work...in a 2-door RWD sedan.

[T-Billy]

23 minutes ago, Susky River Rat said:

26 musky is two-three seasons around here. 1 if you are live scoping them 

Dang, that's rough. My guide buddy said the three today put him at 305 on the season. I'm at 51 and didn't really start fishing for them till August. We don't grow many of the monsters that the big waters up north produce, but we're pretty spoiled numbers wise, and a 50" is a legit possibilty.

[RipzLipz]

33 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

As opposed to the Blizzard of '91 here...30" of snow in three days, and I had to drive 20 miles each way all three days to get to work...in a 2-door RWD sedan.

Don’t envy you all one bit but you’re prepared for it a bit better for the most part. Certainly more than 4 plows for all of Minneapolis (or whatever it was for Atlanta - that was just hilarious to me).

 

Been up to Ely many times & we asked one of the outfitters where they got all their block ice. He told us they cut it out of the lakes with chainsaws. Asked how they got trucks out to islands for trailering their flat bottoms across into CA & he told us they drove them across the ice. We had no clue but certainly do now.

 

So far this year, we’ve gotten flurries & maybe a dusting that lightly covered rooftops but was gone by afternoon. Won’t hurt my feelings one bit if I don’t have to touch a snow shovel but I probably just jinxed myself by even thinking it.🤣

 

@T-Billy Not a musky fisherman at all but curious if you’re getting those in lakes or rivers or both. Can’t speak for northern IN but all musky in central & southern IN are stocked, that I’m aware.