Well about an inch last night, yesterday was nice but windy.  Reports that there is 4 to 6 inches of ice on Sandy pony, but it is VERY inconsistent some spots 2 inches.    
 
Did not go up to the river.   I bought an old beater Arctic Cat 73 Panther that sat for a few years that fired with ether, but I cannot get running.  Rebuilt the carb and such  still no go.  Nephews are chomping to ride it so back working on it today

Ice is inconsistent here, too. A couple of solid and a couple of rotten....
Fished well though!   It'll be interesting to see how much run-off occurs this coming week with the warm temps.  The 750 didn't last that long. 

10 day  shows temps above freezing during the day  and at above 50 this weekend.   Goodby what little ice there was.  

Clint S

10 day  shows temps above freezing during the day  and at above 50 this weekend.   Goodby what little ice there was.  

 
Really ??
Nah, at least not around here.. My local waters that don't have snow are in perfect shape of clear black ice.. Night temps will hold them over..
ADK's or heavy snow areas, they will get real sloppy but if the lake has a good ice base, like many do, they will be fine..
 
I plan on ice fishing every weekend until the stripers run, steel spawn or the boat goes in :)
gonna be awhile..

HT the ice is VERY sketchy around here.  Anything North of Pulaski was ok at best and not until the cold last week.  This weekend was the first time most got out.   Been getting reports of 4  to 6 inches or so of black ice on Sandy Pond ect with folks seeing some spots less.   Many folks went swimming last weekend on Oneida.   Granted the warm and rain will do some good getting ride of the white ice, but we will see.  Weekend temps may not get below freezing.

That stinks !!
It's still 10 deg as of 8:30 am here . A nice one digit number where I plan on fishing this weekend. Lows still below freezing with the warm up coming.

Lots of people have been reporting sketchy and even dangerous conditions so caution to all.
A few places around however already have perm shantys with atv action on them.
Best to know your water body.

Hope you get some ice fishing in but the sr ain't a bad back up :)

its funny that we have no ice at all down here and every time i work at bass pro i have a few people asking about our ice fishing stuff....don't seem to understand the folks at the corporate offices don't send that kind of gear to stores that can't sell it.
now hopefully they will stop sending us the cat fishing gear from the mid-west including trot lines and huge (over a foot long) bobbers with built in lights   gees

Was in a big box  right after retirement bout 10 yrs ago looking for some Blue and Striper gear. All they had were the garden variety stuff that 12 year old kids are attracted to. In order to pick out the gear necessary ya hadda go through the whole department inventory and then it wasnt all there.
  Store manager happened by and asked how the shopping was going- I told her and advised that 'fishermen' who will keep coming back do not return because their gear is not New England oriented
   . Why come here when ya gotta go to a real tackle shop anyhow to get the job done. It was a nice polite realistic conversation. She then started asking personal questions and ended up offering me a manager job in the Dept on the spot.
 I actually considered it and declined. She DID offer inventory control which I thought was unique for those places. Seems they all have some non outdoor fella someplace buying for the whole chain- to their detrement.

i wish we could manage our own inventory
we'd have some salmon and steel head stuff for sure
and much more suitable catfish tools for the susquehanna
but instead we have rows and rows of largemouth gear because we are bass pro and managed out of missori
 

 
Spot on-  Never believed the control offer would emerge and wondered bout an on the spot offer- more likely they were short handed and trolling.
 Seems like whatever the buyers see on TV shows is what they fill the shelves with -  no idea bout the outdoors. If ya aint Bass fishin ya dont belong in those places .
   Big Box outdoor store down 81 towards Syracuse was  similar. Odd considering how close to the SR they are and dont carry most of what ya find in SR Tackle shops.
  The local shops wherever ya fish are the places to go. One stop - its all there.
 
We mighta just Hijacked Clints weather thread