2020 Ice thickness thread
A few kind of type threads going but hard to search and no real interest.
Thought I’d start a proper log! October 13th Northeastern AB near FMM 6 3/4“ at shore 4” ~200’ from shore Progressively thinner further out. Here we go!!!! |
Took a drive to check ice growth at a few lakes,, first lake I checked had 90% coverage and 10% open at shore on one side. So I nixed going to look at other lakes and had a great day fishing. After, 3 hours the lake was about 60% frozen and 40% open with very little wind it sun and it was minus 2. Chances are it will be completely open by next Saturday considering the wind we're sposed to get and zero plus temps. I'm sure there must be a few frozen ponds about but I would consider them sketchy first ice.
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Stay safe early this season everyone.
Been to a few pothole lakes near Edmonton, all around 3-4” of decent ice. |
Lillian Lake near Kananaskis
About 6” of soft ice under about 6” of slush and 4” of snow on top This is the first time I have been so it might change often Slept overnight at -10c Hauled up some firewood And enjoyed it Oh and caught a couple 10-13 “ cutthroat in less than an hour |
Consistent 3-4” in the Barrhead area today with a skiff of snow, slow fishing though.
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3 inches west of Innisfail, on small ponds. Very poor ice quality.
Idiot Aronn Wiebe from YouTube fell through and barely made it out. Had excuses but none that fly. |
Seen a couple people skating on the snaring river by Jasper and a few trying to walk across pyramid lake ... natural selection at its best.. hope they don't procreate
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Few small lakes north of Barrhead up to 6-7” of ice now.
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All the trout ponds around Morinville have 4-5" near shore, didn't venture out more than 30' though
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Saw some pics from Eagle Lake by Strathmore with about a half dozen tents out this past weekend. I'm shocked it would be thick enough yet. Anyone from this messageboard been out there yet? I don't walk on until I've got 6" consistent, so I'm curious about Eagle....
And Aaron Wiebe might be ballsy to the point of dangerous, but he's no idiot, that's for sure. He teaches ice safety and has purposely put himself through the ice many times to teach others how to deal with it. Unnecessarily dangerous in order to get on some first-ice Crappies? Absolutely. But if anyone can handle it, it's him. Dude is a brilliant angler and extremely experienced on thin ice... |
4-5" at Snipe 100 yards from shore.
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South Buck is frozen over. Didn’t check out ice thickness.
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Pigeon Lake - Mulhurst Bay
At Mulhurst, it's a good 4 inches thick off the ramp for about 200-300 feet straight out. I saw a couple big tents out there Sunday.
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Lac la biche
Was 4 inches on Lac la biche on nov 15th about 200yrds off shore and 10ft of water . Managed a few small pike and my pal got one small fat walleye.
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Any FMM updates? Gregoire?
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I used to go out there up till a few yrs ago and with the exception of a few shacks from Strathmore res. you were fishn alone. There are now twice the number on the ice from a few yrs. back. I guess when it was always being let known you could catch some keepers some just continue on whith out any regards to the regs; |
8-10” fmm
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Still, you'd think he would know that the lake freezes last in the middle. As far out as he was when he went through, it should have been *absolutely* no surprise that it happened. I like the kid...there's no doubt he and Michelle can catch fish (check out their Manitoba Master Angler profiles)...but when the dust settles and the 40v SM/Livescope bundle/camera gear all fails to work, I'm sure he'll think twice about an outing like that again in the near future. Just glad he's OK at any rate. The rest is just stuff....
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Poked a few holes in Blood Indian yesterday.
4 - 6" of ice (I stayed close to shore, 5 fow max) I saw one trout all day that rejected my offering. Other than that the only thing out there was a lonely muley and a couple cows on the ice looking for water lol. I had the aqua-vu down the whole day, didn't see any carp... Sent from my motorola one hyper using Tapatalk |
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Oh right on it sounds like it’s and safe for sleds and atv’s now . Gotta drag my wife out and get her tags filled .
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Anyone poke a hole in Crawling Valley yet?
Heard the campground gate was closed too, is that true? |
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