When we going to get "SAFE" ice **poll **

[1iceman]

just though it was a good time to start this as i'm getting eger..
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[Coldfooter]

Well that depends on what a person calls "Safe" ice, lol!!
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[DKStroutfitter]

December 16th at Huntington Reservoir, Utah![]
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[davetclown]

needed another option, I saw safe ice yesterday,

pre augered holes,

it was in my glass of rum and coke...[sly]
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[UpNorthMN]

This is kinda a conditional question. Condition being how far north you are. Which makes me win the first safe ice compitetion. Mu ha ha ha ha. Unless a Canadian cares to post, then i will admit defeat.

Ryan
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[Flagmanonice]

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Some of us are'nt to far from ya upnorth !! Before I was into muzzeloading , we made trips up north !! Went fishing as early as Nov 6 before !!

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[davetclown]

I can remember down here in the tropics of the sore thumb state going ice fishing thanks giving weekend, "after our deer bag limits were met"

now since we got that global worming thing going on, I am lucky to see safe ice in the middle of January...
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[bioman]

Altitude also becomes a factor in ice formation. Here in Utah we have lakes that are at over 10,000 feet elevation. I don't really know when they freeze, but I've been there in July and it snowed 4" on us. Lower lakes freeze safe (4") usually by mid January. We hit the low 90's today so ice in January seems like a loooong time from now.
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[davetclown]

I would emagine your boiling temperature of water is much higher than mine as well,

I am at 975 feet, boiling temp 220, in the bronks of new york it is 218 degrees.

colorado gets better ice than we do in my area. you are right they are much higher even tho they are more than a thousand miles south of me....

the city of detroit kills our ice, they release vast amounts of hot steam in our atsmophere year round, weather paterns unless they are big one seems to go north or south of me.

for me to get good ice I need to pray to the alberta gods...[blush]

personaly any time after thanks giving the cold is welcome around my house.
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[Coldfooter]

Its been a habit over the last couple of years that ol' Fuzzy and I try to be the first to stand on Scoflied each year. And so far so good altho someone usually drops a line in while standing on the boat docks a day or two sooner than we punch a hole, but that dont count![laugh]

Last year I allowed Fuzzy the pleasure of falling through at Huntington before I drove up a couple days later,[]. But if I'd been there I assure you I'd have had my safety rope tied securely around his,,,,,,,,, tackle box.
Whats more it seems to me last year four brave souls/idiots could be seen skipping across a skim cap on the south end of Fish Lake about the 16th of Dec as I recall..
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[UpNorthMN]

Flag,

I know what you are saying. Its not that drastic of a difference between here and farther south in Minnesota, though it does seem like we are always out a week earlier up here.[cool]
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[Flagmanonice]

[] LOL !!!


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[DrownedDesertRat]

Even you've seen ice over 3 feet thick split and make a wall you can't drive past... so what are you talkin' about "safe ice"? I'd hate to be the one parked on top of that ridge when it forms!

But I'm guessing this year (since we seem to be having cooler than usual temps followed by warmer than usual temps ) that we will be lucky to see it by Jan. 1st. Then again, after last winter, I could be wrong.
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