Official ICE Fishing Thread

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Went out today and had a very productive awesome few hours with my Brother. In only 3hrs time we got 8 Bass and 4 Pike and had 7 other drops. The Ice was 5.5" thick, my biggest Pike was 34", a few really nice Bass! :luda:
 

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Mr. SBF

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Nice! What lake?

I'm still afraid to go out on the ice this early!

I don't really want to let out the details on what Lake on this one, a bunch of others that I fish I have no problem sharing but this one gets a bunch of pressure as it is. It's in WI...lol

There is plenty of ice to fish safely, anything 3" and above is totally safe and even with the temps we had this week it is still building ice. And First :quote: Early Ice :quote: is usually the best ice fishing of the season.
 

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Ordered a new tent for my flip over yesterday. Bought the thing for $20 brand new on Craigslist but it didnā€™t have a tent. Clam legend XL. Paid $220 for the tent shipped and the whole thing retails for $479.

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I bought some snow skis a few weeks back from good will to make a smitty sled too. I need to get on top of building that still.
 

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MUST get out this weekend, I donā€™t care how far I need to drive :bowrofl:

Using the Ice report app, looks like thereā€™s good ice as soon as you hit the Wisconsin border out west.

I want to get out and catch more perch but the lake has been chocolate milk for the last three weeks. Hoping it clears up soon so I can catch more of those tasty little guys.
 

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MUST get out this weekend, I donā€™t care how far I need to drive :bowrofl:

Using the Ice report app, looks like thereā€™s good ice as soon as you hit the Wisconsin border out west.

I want to get out and catch more perch but the lake has been chocolate milk for the last three weeks. Hoping it clears up soon so I can catch more of those tasty little guys.

there was about 6-7 cars near my house saturday and guys walking out onto the one back channel
 

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Ice is still about 4" as of now. With the temps in the 20's at night it builds ice and then we lose a little during the afternoon hours.

Didn't make it out since the last time, I planned to go out Saturday morning with friends but had stuff come up that nixed those plans. I'll make it out in the next few days. There were plenty of people out on the lakes by me that I saw while running around.
 

Mr. SBF

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Some IL tourneys starting to show up.
There is a number of Kenosha Area Lakes that have tournaments, they usually start from middle to the end of January and some at the beginning of February. I'll post those up when I get the Flyers .
 

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Mr. SBF

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One I got from the weekend, got out for 2hrs. Ice is way too sketchy/unsafe now but at the least the majority of the Lakes have retained a good amount of their ice coverage with these warm temps/rain. Well at least they still looked good before tonight... We'll have to wait for a few cold nights for safe ice again... The forecast shows a low of 8Ā° on New Years which will help to start building good ice again!
 

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Mr. SBF

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Man, hilljacks in Canada are so much better

What's a hilljacks? There's Old Hus ski and Bolens from back in the day. Past few years there is now a Snowdog they are making which is the same thing better improved. They are expensive though, the base model starts at $3,200 from what I saw and goes up quick with options like bigger engines and picked tracks and ect.
https://youtu.be/DO5QbSrm7kA

F that I'd rather have fun on something I built homemade for a few hundred bux. But that's just me.
 

Mr. SBF

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Just opened up my hub shelter for the first time this year: fiberglass pole blows through the fabric on one of the corners.

:picard:

What kind of hub. My brother has an off brand one that he won in a raffle needs a pole already...lol My friend has the Clam 6 man thermal hub, we used that last year a few times it is really nice.
 

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What kind of hub. My brother has an off brand one that he won in a raffle needs a pole already...lol My friend has the Clam 6 man thermal hub, we used that last year a few times it is really nice.

Eskimo fatfish. It shattered a pole last year too. Fixed that already and I can see up the pocket for the pole myself. All this crap is made in China by the lowest bidder.

I really like the otter stuff Iā€™ve seen but you definitely pay for it too.
 
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