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Old 09-20-2010, 06:57 AM
noslack noslack is offline
 
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The quality of the ice is just as important as the thickness.

Black (clear) Ice is the safest. There's no air bubbles within the ice making the water molecules bond to each other with more strength then ice with air bubbles.


White (bubbly) Ice holds alot of air pockets. Making it weaker then Clear Ice.


It's all a pernonal preference. I will go on couple(yes 2) inches of solid clear ice. I'll go on about 5-6 inches of white ice.

That's a big factor in the early parts of the season when, like mentioned above, the ice doesn't freeze evenly throughout the lake or river. Current plays a big factor on how ice freezes. More current means crappy ice and is unsafe.

Anyways lots of information available through online sources.

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