43 degrees and standing by for heavy rain with thunderstorms in my little piece of Penn's Woods. Don't know where it's headed when it leaves here but somebody is gonna get wet. Maybe pump up the criks and send them fish up the tribs? Be some fresh smoked trout for Christmas feast.

Impossible ( for me) to post pictures from this phone anymore.
Rain washed our local higher elevation ice away.
Temps are going back in the right direction tonight. No worries, just gonna have to put some rubber on the road Friday to the adks.
Great start to winter IMO !!!

Ps. We were on 5 " yesterday, locally here Clint

Humm . Things are getting tight again here . Some single digits coming tonight and tomorrow.
Gonna be walking on water Friday -Tues . Might step in the river weds & thurs.
Happy holidays

Still only 7 degs at my laker place and going to the zero mark tonight.
A few above freezing days coming up but it's the lows i watch more then the highs.

Everything near me is safe. A few people out.

You got me, Clint. Did something happen at 9 Mile Point?  "Fissile material  can have it's atoms split, like Uranium 238. Fissile  can also mean something that is cleavable, splittable, which for ice sounds a little dicey. Careful out there.

Trev, that giant class of small schoolies is still kicking around, so that would be first guess. Other than that, harbor pollock. I've caught them on spinners off docks up and down the coast.  Blues are  farther south, now.  Even seem to be heading out of South Jersey.  I haven't gone since Oct. and am kicking myself for missing what turned out to be a good run on the NJ shore in Nov.
I'll be hitting the West Wall and the Narrow River in  April again.  Have a Merry Christmas and New Year, and I hope you get some fishing in somewhere.

Thanks Charlie and merry X-Mass to you and yours.
Harbor Pollack- have never tried them and how long to they stick around ??

Thanks Charlie

Got out on one of my favorite local lakes.
Not a sole been on the clear black ice fishing yet this season. The perch grounds were locked . I spudded my way to 24 fow with 4 " uniform ice.. Coulda fished there but wanted the full view of the lake as it's split.
Decided to try the second half for gills and crappie.. . Put 3 traps out and they produced .. The jigging was a struggle.
Glad to be out and fishing again !!!
 
This weather today didn't effect the ice at all.. Rain may but there is plenty of hardwater fishing to be found now .
Happy Christmas !!!
 

The Temps got down to 13 degrees last night and tighten up my yard so I took a chance and drove to a small local lake that holds a mixed bag of everything including trout. It was incredible, salmon river zoo like !! Cars & trucks parked everywhere with about 20 shanties on the lake . Musta been 100 plus holes and traps set up out there !!
I walked to waters edge and observed for about 10 mins before getting back in my car and driving home .. Gesh, everyone must have been trying their new Christmas toys out ..
Ah well, got some house work done and everyone will be back to work tomorrow.
Not sure if this rain, again , will kill things local for the week but I will scout some more spots tomorrow. If things turn to a bust I might just walk in that river before 2017 yet ..

Well , me , son & granddaughter found 7" ice today locally. Looks like I might stick around here for awhile longer .
While it was 43 degrees up in the hills , it was brutally windy and without the shanties & heater , we got chilled .

Sorry for the boring posts and no idea how to put pictures up from my phone

BTDT, yesterday was a swing and a miss in the mid Hudson region.  Snow quickly changed over to rain and so far today nothing but a few scattered flurries.  

Just returned from the adks and it fell pretty steady and heavy from 8 am until 8 pm yesterday .
Total fall was 8" there about . It was fluffy stuff and access today on the lake we had 5-6" to deal with. It was fun .
now that I'm below the blue line ( adks) , I got about 4" wet stuff to plow tomorrow before it freezes, I see it's already packed down.

My ice adventure was nothing short of a blast with a good friend, who is heading to fish Champlain area tomorrow.
It was his first of the season and my 6th or so. 2 lakes we fished had 10" & 8" ice respectively. I would have drove my truck on that . Snowmobile riders , x country skiers, hikers, snowshoeing and 1 small group fishing were all we seen in 2 days besides beautiful mountains in the winter. Fish were caught and lost .
A regroup for me tomorrow then start the 2017 season .

Happy new years folks and hope your 2016 ends on a high note

This is the time of year a guy can really appreciate his smart phone. Sittin in a tree and watchin football. How cool is that?

Hope to be sittin on ice next week and watchin the Pen's in the evenings. "Priceless".