4 or five inches of good solid ice is good for a quad and will hold about 1500 pounds and to fish on,10 to 12 for truck,25 inches for a dump truck and 36 inches for a pulp truck loaded.This is solid blue ice,not slush frozen in layers.Air holes can pop up on any lake so if water is present in the snow becareful,of open large air holes.
This is on a normal lake with no large spings or current,if you have moving water under the ice stay off it until it's really thick,it can change over night.
If you don't know the deep spot in some lakes like the middle of a large trout lake,ice thick ness will be slower coming in due the warmer water that takes long to cool off.
If the average dept of a lake is almost the same all along then the ice will be the same over the whole lake near the shore,looks dumb.but works very well.
Plus for what it's worth buy a floater suit and some ice pics,or pull a 14 foot boat on thiner ice and fish tied up to the boat,i do this on rotten ice in the spring on deep trout lakes.
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