what day will the ice come off?

Based on the weather right now, I'm going with June 5th!!!
Poles waxed, new line, tackle sorted, boat ready, but no ice breaker

john, i'm heading up with a trunk full of ice melt saturday.  going to start the thaw.

Hell, don't take it up there!  Sell it!  You have the market cornered!

i heard we shipped a bunch of it today.  checking our inventory, i haven't seen a snowblower in a long time.
 
you rekindled another memory.  in the days of glass spinning rods, i would always put a coat of raindance on all of them.  i loved to tinker with fishing gear in the off season.  heck, one year i polished the spinner blades on a couple of dozen mepps and c.p. swings.

Ya, I still wax the rods.  Take everything out of the tackle boxes and clean the box out and take inventory.  Something to do on these cold days. Sharpen hooks, oil reels   Still debating on a new Lowrance...
Speaking of salt.   13 pallets on Wednesday gone in seven hours!
Thought I read that there was an ice fishing tourney on Pymatuning this week?  Going to have great weather for it!

with the winds and the temps as predicted, i think i will be content to listen to it on the radio...lol.
 
as for ice melt, we tried three or four stores a little over a week ago.  none to be found so i attacked the ice pack at the end of the driveway with a spud bar.  an hour later and a knotted up back, i succeeded in seeing concrete again.  man, this is another winter for the books.

End of march

 That aint nottin', just bought over a 1000 sq' ov old oak hardwood floor that needs sanded then hand waxed 
 
 On a good note the boys bought a swamp boat, motor & tailor tonight but tooo cold to bring home.
 
crappy 

ed, historically we are in the water by st. patrick's day.  i remember one year that we were wading the ohio side and were casting onto the ice and dragging our rapalas back into the water.  we caught some fish doing this.  i'm needing waders and a spinning rod badly right now.