Ice report

[leech~~]

Report from this morning on Edward lake web page. 

 

"Overnight a small skid house that was left on the lake went through the ice! The house was just south of public access, top corner is all that is showing."

[Mike89]

ouch!!!  and more to happen I'll bet... tried to find the cam but didn't 

Edited December 26, 2023 by Mike89

[leech~~]

The beat goes on. 

 

Merrifield bay of North long lake!! Somebody was not to smart!!

 

[Mike89]

head of the lakes here posted a house in too, just south of them...  

[Mike89]

just heard about a couple more, ouch...............

[Wanderer]

They’re dropping all over!  That water runoff will find those holes and whip em right open big enough to swallow those shacks.  I’m shocked at the number of people who thought they could trust this ice that much.

[smurfy]

8 hours ago, Wanderer said:

They’re dropping all over!  That water runoff will find those holes and whip em right open big enough to swallow those shacks.  I’m shocked at the number of people who thought they could trust this ice that much.

same here......i seen it years ago even after we had a foot of ice. it rained pretty good over a new years weekend. the water draining into the spear holes enlarged it enough that corner of the house had no ice to support it. crazy.

 

thats why i'm waiting to fish, i need to do some things up there that will be good to get done when its not single digit warm or colder........and grouse is still open.  looking at he forecast the temps drop to make good ice again.........hopefully not to much snow either. some the the lake i like to hit........on normal years cant get to so.......

[gim]

14 hours ago, Wanderer said:

I’m shocked at the number of people who thought they could trust this ice that much.

I'm not.

 

People do stupid things every winter on sketchy ice.  The most recent example being every year on Upper Red.

 

Rain and 50 degree temps were forecasted for days in advance and yet, people did not remove them.  Now they pay a hefty fee to remove them mandated by law, possibly with the house as a total loss too.

 

Gull Lake is literally wide open water.  Haha

Edited December 27, 2023 by gimruis

[leech~~]

Sounds like a bomber went down on LOW. 

 

 

And side X side on Red.  But their safe.  

 

[Wanderer]

Yeah bad day up that way.  A friends brother runs shuttles up to the NW Angle so I heard about it early on.  Mostly because he drove a bomber on that same trail yesterday.  Kinda sobering.

 

His mission today was to help get a Sherp back up on the ice while trying to get people back to shore.  The resort wants to pull their houses off - if they can.

 

[leech~~]

4 minutes ago, Wanderer said:

Yeah bad day up that way.  A friends brother runs shuttles up to the NW Angle so I heard about it early on.  Mostly because he drove a bomber on that same trail yesterday.  Kinda sobering.

 

His mission today was to help get a Sherp back up on the ice while trying to get people back to shore.  The resort wants to pull their houses off - if they can.

 

Dang, hate to hear lose of life reports.  

Love the Sherp's but nothing is 100% out there.  

[leech~~]

Hard to see but that is a live fly, outside my house window on December 28th when we should have 2 feet of snow!  Ice fishing anyone? 
The world is truly coming to an end!  

[Kettle]

Another 75-100 stranded on Red tonight

[Wanderer]

1 hour ago, Kettle said:

Another 75-100 stranded on Red tonight

SMH.

[leech~~]

Now LOW at it again.  

 

 

 

[gim]

On 12/29/2023 at 8:25 PM, Kettle said:

Another 75-100 stranded on Red tonight

 

I believe the Beltrami County Sherriff Dept closed access to the lake on Saturday.  Too many people getting stranded.

 

It does appear to be significantly colder in about a week though, so maybe they will rescind that order when things improve.