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Old 01-04-2016, 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by PerchBuster View Post
Be careful on Lakes in the Boyle area, heard a truck went in on Saturday at Chump Lake between Skeleton and North Buck. Luckily only in shallow water so they can recover it easy enough but reports of 13" ice all over that lake and they broke through a spot only 7" thick. Do your homework everybody and identify any potential current areas and proceed with upmost caution. The cold weather coming in now will surely help a lot but the ice sheets on a number of lakes have varying thicknesses and it's not uniform throughout. Stay safe all and err on the side of caution
I travelled from the boat launch to the narrows checking the thickness at several spots along he way and the thickness was 13-15 inches at each point. I was in my Ranger but there were several trucks on the ice. The ice may be thinner than that but I didn't find it.
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