Just heard there is still 8 inches of good stuff on the pond. Even the shore held up. To hell with fighting the cracks at Oneida  

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Clint S
Just heard there is still 8 inches of good stuff on the pond. Even the shore held up. To hell with fighting the cracks at Oneida  

That's good news Clint. Hope you gets some action. Use caution and be safe.
The big lake I'm heading to has expanded from the influx of the river flow.
Not worried about thickness but am concerned about wet feet to that thickness. If I need waders it means ice season is over for me .
Temps are dropping like a rock now .
Do that dance Jack , no wind , no rain and ice :)

  ......Hope that helped Rich,but tomoorow the temps are going to rise for awhile and then they are talking about SNOW at end of week.

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We had a BLAST on the ice today with ZERO people out my window.
Biggest fish of the year so far .
Thanks for the dance . 7 degs in am today , 30 in pm .
One more tomorrow would be great as friends are coming:)
Thank you !!

....how's that? my reward will be some pictures!

66 degrees with the wind sustained at 21 MPH gusting to 30 in my area of The Pennsylvania Wilds.  Areas to my north and west have wind advisories posted saying 40 to 60 MPH winds can be expected through the night as a "Alberta Clipper" swings across the area.  A bit of a temperature drop expected through next week, though nothing in the severe cold range. Then.......... spring will sprung, and I know it will, not because of Robins, Bluebirds, Redwings, Skunks or even, Opossums.  Because.........  well because, of two reasons really and, No. Uno is the recent sighting of sap buckets hanging from the area Maple Trees.  No. Dos, (watch at your  own risk) is our  trustworthy..................  https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/march-may-spring-2016-outlook. 
 
Speaking of the drop in temperatures this coming week, I wouldn't store the snow shovel if I lived anywhere close to Lake Erie shore lines......... it could suck to be you guz!!!!!
 
HT have barrels of fun on the ice, I hope to be floatin my boat by next weekend.

Ice was a perfect foot and looked good. I managed about 25 nice perch, 100 dunks  and a 30inch pike. Biggest perch was a hair under 13

Congratulation Clint, nice batch of fish, that had to have been a good time.
 
Rain just moving off to my east and the wind is doing it's best trying to bend my flag pole in half.  Blowing heavily out of the NNW bringing light, horizontal bands, of snow.  So far the forecast has held steady and says the weather will improve starting in a few hours lasting through late Tuesday night when the temperatures will drop to the low 30's for highs and upper teen's for the lows Wed. and Thur.  Friday begins the up swing with temperatures forecast into the 60's for the first full week of March.
 
I think, for my little piece of Penn's Woods, I'm safe in saying March is coming in like a Lamb and the "Times OF Boater Moating" are upon us.
 
Take care, think safety and, tight lines.

I hope the mud ( clay ) dries up to pull the Mae from out back to front

Got up early while the ground was still frozen at 20 degs and success !!!
The Mae is now in the driveway ready to start the preparation:)

I would of been out if my dingy was here and ready, but alas plans for the next few weeks will keep me from any sort of fishing until at least after April gets here. Would of loved some ice out perch or eyes or even casting for some browns out of mexico

Just watched a Sand Hill Crane circling overhead, producing a call that sounded "Jurassic".   Just fabulous, absolutely fabulous!
 
Spring is in the air.

Some things never change... that is the weather is always the hot topic of conversation :) saw my first Robin yesterday and many birds chirping around. Peepers are out tonight. What a mild winter we had. But of course we will have overnight lows in the teens this weekend. Oh well... steelhead fishing was non existent for me this winter. I've heard there were some decent shots, but nothing to write home about. I'm happy the water was up quite a bit to give fish in the river the much needed break they deserved. I've heard concerns from businesses and guides about the "fisherman based" economy up here. Let's see what next year brings. But if we get another sub part year I think we'll be seeing another shift in business owners and closures like we did in the late 90'summer and early 2000's. Great to see everyone is still kicking around

A lot of things are beyond the control; of the biologists.  If this is another low year for 1 year old alewives, I think there could be a serious disruption in stocking as a result, a lot of fingerling kings wished out into a cornfield some place. I would expect to see reductions in other species as well, but if there are no herring it is kings that will suffer the most.
 
I expect the snowmobile based economy up there suffered this winter, and all the places I know that cater to ice fishermen were hurting as well. 

Crazy weather....warm with Thunder possible today....then cold this weekend,first day of spring,with a Nor Easter possible with SNOW!
I'm looking forward to the next couple weeks with the daughter for Easter and some Steelhead in Ohio.Reports of fishing have been GOOD when the rivers are not blown.Hope the water settles down so I can fish the main rivers and not the side streams while there.

I think it was a decent year too. Temps were mild, no snow to drag though and for me better fishing. I think I went more this year than last as last year it was too windy and too much snow on the lake. I will be stepping out for a few days and then be back for some spring fishing and hopefully a few dropped. Egg take has  started at the hatchery too.

B.O.A.T.
We didn't set the Mae into the water for 2 reasons
1. Temps got real cold last night and didn't want to chance freezing up the block
2. End of last year we noticed a smell of fuel when filling up, yesterday when I put fuel in it was very strong. Boat guy didn't want to start motor because it was so strong.
Well I got into things and found my fill hose was cracked . After digging a bunch of foam out to get it out, it wasn't just cracked but it was SHOT !! It was leaking fuel upon fill up into the hull and soaking into the foam .
Gosh knows how we didn't blow the thing up .
Anyway, the weather was decent enough to work outside and wrangle the old 1988 ( it's date stamped ) 6.5 foot hose out .
Let me say , those hoses ain't cheap .. $20.00 per foot locally , $12.00 online .

It's just another adventure as I look at things. It will be fixed this week and all fuel lines replaced as I'm understanding back then they are not ethanol friendly .
We did go play in the yaks for a brief time and the smallies are active and pre spawn.
That means stripers are coming soon .
This is going to be a busy week as I also have a giant oak tree in my neighbors yard he wants gone . More than happy to drop it and haul the wood to my house :)
More preparation on the boat as its looking like she will make the trip to the Great Lake for Browns April -8 th weekend . Then it's all stripers until the depart back to the ocean . Need to get back to painting the bathroom for the honey ;)