Wisdom
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bassinbrian
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RE: Saratoga Lake and Lake Lonely Ice
2009/03/10 18:14:39
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This past weekend really put a hurting on most places. Come on open water !!!!! 
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RE: Saratoga Lake and Lake Lonely Ice
2009/03/10 18:18:14
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The fat lady sang last weekend for ice season...
Open water can't get here soon enough... BRING IT!!! Sunshine, long daylight, and fish in shallow...
"After work time" is fixin' to get a whole lot more sweet in the next few weeks...
"I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there" -Robert Altman
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RE: Saratoga Lake and Lake Lonely Ice
2009/03/10 20:16:57
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Jimmy, While I hate like heck to say this, you may be right.
Locally it's just to risky to go out there now and even though the north still has good ice I just don't think I will see it again until next season.
So NOW WHAT !!! the SR is blown out (almost) and will be with all that snow yet to melt. Stripers are still a GOOD month away , smallmouth are chillin and my brook trout ponds are ice in... I'll be stir crazy after I get back from the west coast.........
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RE: Saratoga Lake and Lake Lonely Ice
2009/03/10 20:26:55
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wow!! i can't believe how high the water is at the lonely livery!!
does it usually get that high in the spring????
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Wisdom
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RE: Saratoga Lake and Lake Lonely Ice
2009/03/10 21:32:51
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ORIGINAL: hot tuna
Jimmy, While I hate like heck to say this, you may be right.
Locally it's just to risky to go out there now and even though the north still has good ice I just don't think I will see it again until next season.
So NOW WHAT !!! the SR is blown out (almost) and will be with all that snow yet to melt. Stripers are still a GOOD month away , smallmouth are chillin and my brook trout ponds are ice in... I'll be stir crazy after I get back from the west coast.........
Just saw some recent pics of SR and could see grass on the banks in the back ground, but with lake affect that could change. Last report I saw said flow was about 1000 slowing the bite but they expect it to settle in a couple of weeks turning the bite back on....tight lines
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Wisdom
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RE: Saratoga Lake and Lake Lonely Ice
2009/03/10 21:35:56
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ORIGINAL: ILikePike
wow!! i can't believe how high the water is at the lonely livery!!
does it usually get that high in the spring????
When my family ran it, the water would flood to the other side of the building by where the stairs are. One spring I shot carp in about 4 fow about 30 yards into the cow pasture.
post edited by Wisdom - 2009/03/10 21:36:46
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RE: Saratoga Lake and Lake Lonely Ice
2009/03/10 23:12:45
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I know! I got the shakes too  twooo more weeks hopefully some fishing in between! I'm bouncig around the thought of some njs pb  I still have 3 large ziplocks of frozen perch fillets
stay out of the stock market /big brother is on the take
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RE: Saratoga Lake and Lake Lonely Ice
2009/03/10 23:14:35
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Alot of rain snow warm duds that to the lake!
stay out of the stock market /big brother is on the take
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RE: Saratoga Lake and Lake Lonely Ice
2009/03/11 06:10:21
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wisdom: the SR is flowing over 2,000 cfs , and the snow melt has not really started yet. trust me the water is going to be flood stage soon and then high for awhile. i don't know if you ever used this but here is a link to the real time flow, up - river http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ny/nwis/uv/?site_no=04250200
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Wisdom
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RE: Saratoga Lake and Lake Lonely Ice
2009/03/11 09:18:50
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Wisdom
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RE: Saratoga Lake and Lake Lonely Ice
2009/03/17 19:54:32
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Went by Fish Creek today. Starting to break up. Open cracks down the middle from past the marina running under the bridge past the launch and ice pulling back from shore. Won't be long now. 
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RE: Saratoga Lake and Lake Lonely Ice
2009/03/18 11:13:34
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The most dangerous spot on Saratoga Lake is under the bridge. For the past three years I have pulled at least one person out of that water when the ice gives way. Even when I see them coming with their stuff they don't realize how soft that ice under the bridge has become when I warn them.
Eagle Ed
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