Looked at the weather map anx think that warmwater is not around anyplace.
It is 10 degrees here with a 20 mph wind.
My wife thinks I have the shack nasties.
Don't think that is possible.
Rick
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Looked at the weather map anx think that warmwater is not around anyplace.
It is 10 degrees here with a 20 mph wind.
My wife thinks I have the shack nasties.
Don't think that is possible.
Rick
Shack-Nasties are running rampant here. No warmwater in sight. Our temperature has been stuck in the high 20's so long I'm beginning to feel like a frozen fish stick. I've been taking extra Vitamin D to ward of the effects of Solar Deprivation Syndrome.
We have plenty out here in sunny California. It might hit 70 degrees today in Sacramento, but we are in a serious drought.
Don't look to the East coast for warmth. Here in Atlanta we're in our fourth day in a row of morning temperatures in the mid to low teens with a high in the 30s. There's a skim of ice around the edges the lake I live on and although today's not too bad, the winds been blowing as well just to add to the chill factor. The good news is that in 45 days or so, the weather should be beautiful and the fish biting like crazy. Yipee!!!
Jim Smith
Jim, Remember it's good for the peaches. Which means we should have a killer crop this year. But, this is the first time it's been this cold in I don't remember the last time. This too will pass and spring is just around the corner.
Oh yeah, a bumper crop of peaches would be nice! Got a nice peach-growing community about an hour away from me.
T'aint no warm water here in Okieland. I should be chasing Trout in my home lake. However, whenever I get the opportunity, it seems like that lake has enough skim ice on it to keep everyone from fishing.
No shack-nasties here. I'm having fun tying stuff!
Got out this afternoon. Saw a few bass, but no takes...
We keep getting a roller coaster of temps..... there is ice on the lakes and ponds, but it isn't safe to be out on. Shack nasties indeed!
been nice and wasrm here but all the water has salt in it
Went perch fishing yesterday. Drilled through about 10 inches of hard water and used garden hackle for the bait. Beats sitting around waiting for the thaw. Plus them perch are right good eating.
Tim
Had snow in southwest MS Thursday and part of Friday. Coldest weather I remember in years. When weather is decent in the 40s wind is blowing so hard don't think I could bring fly rod forward much less get any line to go any distance. Just think in July and August we will be complaining how hot it is. lol mathcarver
All the water is hard here in Michigan. Even some of the rivers are nothing but ice. Only 'sposed to be 6* tomorrow!! BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
My wife is from MI. She keeps trying and trying to get me to move back. I have to constantly remind her that she doesn't really like how much time I spend fishing here in OK. If we move back up there, she'd never seen me! Freaking little-bitty lakes just screaming to be explored with my kayak EVERYWHERE..........
Now Here in Ft Worth it has been cold as can be, but it keeps warming up to the 70's a few days later. Just wait a while and it'll change again, right!lol. Still went out last week and worked over a small creek that always has a few in it and they just weren't interested. Guess I'll have to wait a bit yet. Try tying it helps.
Currenly in Minnesota the low temperature is a minus 26 degrees F with a windchill making it a minus 52 degrees F. The odds of a early spring is be sometime in May, just like last year...
Just south of Winnipeg a Natural Gas Line has just broken causing a giant fire ball, and two other Natural Gas Lines have also be shut down...
These three line bring Natural Gas to North & South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa...
We have be asked to reduce our house temperature to 60 degrees F ...
Better get out the "Longjohns" do not know how long until we can return our house temperatue to 70 degrees F ...
My dad's best buddy from WWII was a farmer from Laverne, MN. Back when long distance phone calls were a big deal they would talk once or twice a year. Later on they got to visiting each other for a week or so at a time. Alvin lost a finger harvesting corn when it was 20 below. I always want to ask him if it just froze and broke off or if he got it in the corn picker (which I assumed was the case.) Grand Casino was my client when they were based in Minneapolis and decided they wanted me to make safety audits of their MN casino in January. It really help me appreciate living in the south.
Plenty of warm water here in Florida! Matter of fact, it's always warm here, up to the point of feeling like you are wading into a bathtub when summer rolls around... Got to 81 here today, but was in the 30's at night last week.
My wife and I just came back from Lake of the Woods. We caught a few walleye and sauger, but night time temps hovered between -35 and -40 and the wind was clipping along at about 45 mph. One did not venture far from the fish house!
Low 20's here on the Miss. coast. Low 20's??!! Ice everywhere and not expected to warm up till Thursday. Don't laugh at us. We have zero cold weather equipment, i.e. sand trucks, etc. We're stuck inside for a while.
Our cabin in WVa has temps at -13. I am just hoping that the gills, perch and bass in our pond are going to live. Max depth at the deep end is 10 ft. I do not know when it has been this cold up there before.
Gerri, It doesn't happen often, so far twice I remember in my soon to be 68 years, but temperature in north MS have hit down around -15 def. F with no real damage to fish in farm ponds, most of which are no deeper than that. It only last a week or 10 days as best I remember so longer might be a problem. I was surprised during my winter visit to MN to learn ponds up there freeze solid in the winter.
A guy I know icefished the local reservoir today, said ice thickness was 16"-18".
Hey dave for us southerners how thick does ice usually get? I am assuming that 16" is alot? I know here in Ft Worth we have had ice covering ponds more than once this winter, and that in it's self is unusual.
It varies. A typical year, locally, will see ice of 8"-12" thick. 16"-18" is pretty thick for Iowa, but I imagine its not unusual at all for Minnesota & Wisconsin.
At 2.5", you can walk on it but its kind of iffy and you really have to be careful. At 4", its safe for fishermen, as long as they aren't standing around in a group. When the ice gets 8"-10" thick, folks start driving their cars and trucks on it.
That is nuts, I'm not sure I could bring myself to do it.
If the weather trend around here continues, we'll have warm water in a couple of days. It's supposed to be cold on Thursday, but then back to the 50s and 60s for Friday and beyond.
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Did the recent rains and mud slides do anything for fill reservoirs and streams are did it just wash thru too fast to really help the overall situation. Here in the OK and TX western plains we are also hurting for rain bad, and we're still getting fires alongside roads from people tossing their butts out without thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by cmcculloch