| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 611.1 | An Idea.... | GRANMA::NSUMMERS | | Mon Feb 29 1988 09:42 | 17 |
| Last year I had the same problem. An avid Ice-Fisherman explained
it to me this way: Smaller lakes, and coves on larger lakes tend
to crack in a chain reaction due to the back and forth echo from
bank to bank. This echo does not let the sound waves escape to open
water.
The fishing that morning was fair to good. Then when the air temp
hit above freezing, the lake sounded like a war zone. Not to mention
a vary eerie feeling. The fish stoped hitting. I was told later
that the fishing never slowed down in open water, it only slowed
in the coves.
BUCKETMOUTH
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| 611.2 | SNAP CRACKLE POP | SCOMAN::WOOLDRIDGE | | Mon Feb 29 1988 15:45 | 5 |
| I don't know how it affects the fish but it bothers the hell out
me! "IF THE ICE IS CRACKIN IT'S JUST FREEZIN" I understand that
but it can get that adrenaline going from time to time regardless!
NIGHTCRAWLER~~~~~~~~~~~
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| 611.3 | | FEISTY::TOMAS | Joe | Mon Feb 29 1988 16:24 | 19 |
| It's getting to be that time of year when you need to pay special attention
to ice thickness. It can vary very quickly and go from 12" to 2" within
several feet, especially if there is current or springs in the area.
I heard recently that a family was ice fishing up on Winnie somewhere and
had a good solid 15" of ice beneath them. But they STILL ended up getting
in trouble! It seems that the ice they were on broke away and became a
floating ice flow that drifted out towards the middle of the lake.
They were stranded for about 5 hours until F & G came to the rescue.
Although many of the smaller lakes and ponds still have a good 12-18" of ice
on them, it won't be too long (hopefully) before it starts melting and
getting mushy. As long as we don't get a real warm spell, I think the ice
should remain fairly safe for another 2 weeks (in N.H.). After that, I'll
just pack away the ice gear and wait until the first mild weekend and head
up to the Merrimack R. where it's open now.
-HSJ- (playin_it_safe)
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| 611.4 | "Fishing the Bergs??" | RANGLY::BLUM_ED | | Tue Mar 01 1988 12:37 | 12 |
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Ref .3......interesting surprise for them EHhhh!
I remember one year reading about a couple hundred nimrods getting
stuck on a ***LARGE*** ice floe on lake Michigan...cars and
all.....lucky for them the wind shifted and they were sucessfully
recovered.
Anyone there for that one!!!
Ed
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| 611.5 | | FEISTY::TOMAS | Joe | Tue Mar 01 1988 15:10 | 2 |
| Could you imgine the looks on their faces if they were using an LCR thru one
of the holes and saw the bottom dropping off!! Slightly un-nerving!
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| 611.6 | Lake Champlain | CLUSTA::STORM | | Wed Mar 02 1988 13:35 | 6 |
| I believe the incident mentioned in .3 was on Lake Champlain in
northern Vermont, and not Winni. I'm certainly glad I wasn't
there to witness it first hand!!!
Mark,
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| 611.7 | | HPSCAD::BPUISHYS | Bob Puishys | Wed Mar 02 1988 14:23 | 7 |
| My grandad was on Lake Champlain once and lost a set of tilts chisle
and all his gear. the ice was 12", the wind about 30 mph, the
other end broke up and the ice started to wave from the wind.
It was rolling and very bad they ran for shore as it started to
break up and he lost his tilts and things.
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