First ice, St Cloud area

[Rick G]

Checked the ice on a couple area lakes this week. Not really finding enough ice to walk on in most places yet. Did however find an area that had 3-4 inches close to shore and less as we tried to get out a little deeper.

We opted to fish the safeish ice closer to shore...lol.  

With the warm temps forecast this week, our ice making will be slow..... If you do plan on checking locally, please be careful...use a spud bar to check your path and have ice picks ready.  It's really not worth it if your life is in danger lol...

We did manage to get into fish pretty good on the little portion of safe ice we found

[Wanderer]

Thanks Rick. 
 

Imma head out today on a lake I found 4 inches on a couple days ago.  Never fished it before but I’ve had my eye on it for a couple weeks already.  It only built an inch in the last 2 weeks which was surprising for the temps we had.

 

Good luck and yes, be safe!

 

By the way, you look a little leaner this season.  Did you do that just for first ice?   just kidding…. Hope all is well!

Edited December 11, 2021 by Wanderer