Ice Alert ! Truck down

[MNsetters]

Rogers posted that a truck sank to the bottom, but all are safe. Happened East of them and West of No Name Road.

[kelly-p]

That is not surprising to me. People seem  to think that with 10 to 12 inch ice that it is good to go. It might be OK for the 1st or 5th or 20th vehicle but 12 inch ice will break up with repeated traffic. Now that I do not have to be out there for business I have not even driven my Jeep out there yet.

  Years ago nobody was letting vehicles out yet and Buddy sank his lite plow truck about 5 miles out. We had about 8 inches of ice under the road Buddy had kept dragged down for 3 weeks so the next day we tiptoed out there with CJ 5s, Rangers and such pulling the equipment we needed behind on big sleds to get his truck out.  About the time we got the tripod set up over the hole we looked and a truck was coming from the south shore straight at us. We were amazed that anybody was driving out where it had not been drug down so it froze deeper. We tried to wave that truck away from us but it drove right up to us. It was a 3/4 ton diesel!!!!!! The driver stated, "You can't fool me. With all the vehicles here this must be the hot spot and I'm fishing right here".  We explained to him that we were not fishing but working on getting a truck back up that had gone through the ice the day before. He thought that that was really funny that a truck had gone through and started laughing like crazy. He quit laughing when we explained that his truck was more then 4 times heavier then the truck that had gone through the day before and 3 times heavier than the other vehicles there. It always amazed me that he drove right across that ice.

The first vehicle can go over thinner ice then the 2nd can. The 5th vehicle can go over thinner ice then the10th vehicle and so on. Plowing a new road if trouble happens it usually is not on the 1st or 2nd pass but the passes after that. Following some else's tracks does not mean that it is safe. It can be quite the opposite if the first vehicle was a heavy vehicle. Then it is the most dangerous place to drive.

[Fishalittle]

After seeing people pulling big tandems out past coned off roads and cross country travel and then pickups coming out it was only a matter of time..... probably won't be the last this season either. One guy I seen posting on facebook said 15-16" of ice 4 miles out....okay but he more than likely crossed a lot of 10" ice to get there! Fishing was slow for us 31st thru the 2nd. Tried 5 different spots with 10-12" of ice.

Hey Kelly, whats up with the root beer water color that magically clears up (some anyway) about 1.5 miles out from the Hillman-westwind area? Fish don't seem to like it!

 

[Hoyt4]

There is no way a truck should be on the ice right now. I have been up all winter and there is not enough ice. We found areas not just one this weekend that only had 3 inches of ice. Use wheelers and sleds for right now. Some spots we had 10 to 12 and then you found that 3 to 5 in many spots. I actually fell through some ice about 4 to 5 inches before I hit another layer . It was just clear ice not piled up or drifted just a air pocket so have to be careful. The cold is coming don't rush it out there with trucks.

 

The ice was really shifting and opening up new cracks this weekend. We had many shifts and scared the sh!!!! ouf of when you house moves and you holes are in different places now. As we drove out new water on top and new cracks at least two from the shifting. We fished all day Friday - Sunday this happen at least 2 times a day you would hear a cannon like sound and feel the ice sheet move freaky freaky.

 

 

[kelly-p]

3 hours ago, Fishalittle said:

Hey Kelly, whats up with the root beer water color that magically clears up (some anyway) about 1.5 miles out from the Hillman-westwind area? Fish don't seem to like it!

It could be still stirred up from before freeze up but I would guess that it is water flowing out of the Tamarac that has not diluted with the lake water yet. The bog is not frozen at all and still flowing. We have not been able to fall flood the rice paddies for a number of years but this year it was no problem with the high flow coming out of the bog. In my life time we have only been able to still be flooding before freeze up once or twice in November. This year there was still water flowing good at X-Mass.

  In the summer time you want to get right at the edge of that colored water. There is a lot of fish food flushing out of that river.

[MNsetters]

Here is a photo of the truck that went in by Rogers last Sunday. 

 

 

Edited January 8, 2016 by MNsetters

[leech~~]

5 minutes ago, MNsetters said:

Here is a photo of the truck that went in by Rogers last Sunday.

 

 

Did she go all the way to the bottom? That would total suk!

[MNsetters]

I didn't see it, but I herd it did.

[Weathertite]

I was up there last Friday and I have to tell you I was really surprised at all the vehicles out on the lake. I was only on 10 " of ice and there was 1/2 ton trucks out a lot farther than we were. Wonder what they were sitting on for ice thickness ?

[Hoyt4]

I will not be up this weekend but my buddies are up there and still finding different depth ice. I do not think I would be driving out lke weathertite said still suprised people let them out on the lake or that they would drive out.

In a few weeks of some cold nights should be better.

[cookie129]

• I've been out two days in a row in blue thunder which is a 3/4 ton stripped down and both trips a mile out just over 11inches measured with a tape measure. This cold snap should make us a couple more inches that's for sure

[Hawg]

Any good fishing reports it was horrible for us last night and 11 feet

[perchking]

That would not be fun although I love watching those recovery videos on the tube of U.

 

 

 

12 hours ago, MNsetters said:

Here is a photo of the truck that went in by Rogers last Sunday.