Monthly Archives: December 2016

December 27th, 2016 evening

Today I pulled out 4 houses with the Jeep on 11″ of ice.  The melting and rain  on Christmas Day actually took a little of the thickness of it and the wind Sunday sort of leveled things out and almo0st every hole we drill in the areas we go to was about 11″ to 11-1/2″.  The good part is that what cold we are going to get will get to the ice easier.  The bad part is that there is little or no snow for banking houses, so hole liner are a must.

Starting tomorrow we will let ATV’s and small single axle wheel houses out of our access. ( no larger than 8′ by 16′).  And make sure you have chains because the ATV will have to be able to pull it up the ramp as I will not let trucks down in front,

The bite is pretty good for those that get out there for Perch and Walleyes, You just have to get in the right spot. a couple I sent out this morning found Walleyes in 24-27 feet, but not much for Perch, then Moved in to 17-18′ in the afternoon and caught and released numerous Walleye from 22″to 27″, plus got some nice Perch.  All in all pretty good.

I will keep pulling houses with the Land Cruiser.  Smaller ones first.  The heavy private houses, (and those people know theirs….) probably will not make it out for New Years Weekend.  The ones that do will need to have an ATV or Snowmobile, or a mini van/SUV type vehicle, or a small car.  As of now…. No 1/2 trucks.  We will wait until I see 13-15 inches of ice before that happens.

Keep a tight Line!     Eddy

 

December 27th,2016

Today we are going to start pulling the some of the smaller rentals and check ice conditions, and later in the week some of the larger houses if the ice depth permits. Yesterday we got some snow and a lot of wind about 2:00 p.m. the wind switched NW and blew 30 plus for the remainder of the day. When I went to check the wood boiler at 8:00p.m. it was still blowing.  This morning is is considerably less.  Hope it will be a good day.

Our plans for the week are to get some of the smaller houses out and watch the ice depths.  A couple cold nights with no snow out there will help the cold get to it and freeze.  I’m thinking that by the weekend we will be letting small vehicles out, (small cars, small SUV’s, basically 1/2 rated or smaller pickups, Wheelhouses pulled by ATV’s, not by trucks.)  With the no snow cover we will make ice faster in the evenings,but also the warm sunny days can get to it causing expansion and ridges.  But for now we’ll take the as much cold as we can get.

Looking forward to seeing everyone again…    Keep a Tight Line!

Eddy

December 26th,2013

This morning after yesterday rain and strong east winds, the winds haves shifted west and are blowing pretty good with light snow falling.  We ended up pretty good from what I can see by looking out there.  The rain took the major of what snow we had so portable traffic will be ATV only and EVERYONE coming up had better bring ice cleats….

When the wind dies later today or early tomorrow we are going to start pulling some of our smaller rentals and smaller private houses if they want to come for the weekend with an ATV. I am not going to let vehicle traffic out until I see more ice.  Colder temps would change that very quickly if we get some.  Small (12foot in length or smaller) single axle wheel houses and ATV’s with chains are good to go now.  Most ice depths out there where we are going so far are 10-11″ so we are getting closer. A few cold days and we will be going….

     Keep a Tight Line!         Eddy