Ice Challenge Chat

[SkunkedAgain]

Jeff, you may have scared some people by talking about walking around on 1.5 inches of ice. You may want to explain that water is less than two feet deep, or whatever it is. Don't want anybody trying that at, say, Mantua.

Good point Craig, yes I'm not quite as crazy as it sounded, I was on water less than knee boot deep checking the ice.  When I got close to deeper water the ice was already cracking and when it cracks I go the other direction... I'm an ice chicken as my Dad says... and chickens don't swim well so trying to keep my feathers dry...  BTW the ice is now at least 3" thick in the shaded areas and holding strong with no cracking, but there are spots where the muskrats are active underneath and those passage ways have much thinner ice so there are so many variables that can cause you to take a swim, make sure you have your spud bar active this time of year to make sure you know how thick it is... Since the ice is glass clear, I can see the air bubbles frozen down through the ice layers and you can kind of tell how thick the ice is by sight, but don't trust it completely, I've seen spots that I thought was good and they started cracking on me... One other point, I'm never very far from shore on this thin ice stuff, it needs to be safe before I venture out to where the fish will be, but as cold as last night was, I might be able to try after work tonight... I'm hoping so anyway... Later Jeff

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Jeff, Randy,  Here is the list of folks signed up so far. Lance posted it out on the main board.  
But no one has created a personal contest thread yet. 

Kentofnsl
Hookngrinin
Cowboypirate
Cookie
Jig-Fisher
Skunkedagain
Fritzfishn
Justawormguy
Catchinon
2knots
joatmon
Jarner
bblake98
F15Hwishperer
DJHill16


2 more added since these

ofishal_chris
ChalkCreekUT. 

Thanks Forest, good idea to get a record on the contest board... J

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Good idea Jeff. Especially for us first Ice chasers. I will start with an invite to Chesterfield tomorrow. Short notice but I will be there just off the boat launch. I should get the panning device I ordered today, so I'm anxious to try my new camera.

Randy, How did the trip turn out... I was sooooo jealous yesterday for you on the ice at Chesterfield and the big group over to Bear Lake after the whitefish and I was stuck at this computer keeping the free world free....  so hoping you posted something, I'm heading to the Idaho board after this one to check... Hope you had a great trip... Later Jeff