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Hey all, i'm headed down to the area for the long weekend and would like to get out back on my hometown lakes. How is the ice after this warm/rainy week?

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All the ice in Southern MN is bad.. not sure where you headed but its bad here. But central MN by St. Cloud and Buffalo should be good

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Huh? As long as you don't mind walking and take precautions there is fishable ice.

Posted

the ice is pretty bad here.

Posted

I'm looking to get out in the buffalo st. micheal area.

Posted

In the metro its still fishable. It looks scary and lots of water on the ice and running cracks but still plenty of ice to fish on. I was out this morning. Be careful for open holes though.

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Were probably head to buffalo lake firday and saturday,, Hopefully

Posted

thanks for the updates. hows the crappie bite on buffalo been this year?

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it was good on the 13th when i was up there.. but hadnt been there since, and hadnt been fishing since. So im hopefully going this weekend. But been trying to get reports on whats biting now, and how the ice is now.

Posted

I am still seeing 4 wheelers out as of tonight in the annandale area. I would not do it but maybe I am just a panzy.

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We fished a few different lakes today. Ice conditions varied so much even on the early freezers. Would not advise wheelers, saw 10" of ice turn into 4.5" in the last few days. Be careful out there grab the picks before heading out. I'm sure in the next few days we'll get a city rush and someone will drop a vehicle in.

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Yes,watch out for open holes and thin spots.I drilled some holes today on a few lakes and some spots were 10inches and some spots were 5 inches and the 5inch ice was not good ice at all-soft,white,mushy,slush ice....I assume the 5inch ice is the stuff where there were open holes from the last rain event.Im havnt seen as many open holes as last time,but from yesterday to today there was quite a few more.I came across 2 of them today that were at least 4ft×3ft and they were not from a spear hole being cut,one formed alomg a crack and the other was where someone drilled holes kinda close to each other.There is still alot of water to drain and im sure there will be more open holes and junk ice.Looks lile a cool down after the weekend so that should fix it up again hopefully.

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