no ice yet

[icecold]

Yesterday I drove up to the hiway 4 bridge which crosses minnesota river, I icefish some areas up there, The river is flowing wide open ,Its going to take 2 good weeks of cold weather to make any good ice, current is so strong yet.Hopefully by next weekend I will be able to hit some of the new ulm area lakes. THINK ICE....

[riverrat56]

Nope no ice anywhere, the lakes arent looking any better. Checked Clear on tuesday and there was about 2 inches for about 100 ft then it was wide open, doesnt sounds good unless it gets real real cold for a few days and its calm.

What lakes are you planning on fishing around new ulm, i most fish Clear and Hanska, but i was thinking of trying Gibbon (Clear) this year also since i have been hearing ok reports.

RR56

[icecold]

Just got done looking at the national weather service forcast and it looks like a nother big warm up for southern minnesota by the end of this week, no really cold weather in site, I found this weather forcast to be pretty accurate, but who knows, maybe betwwen christmas and newyears we will get some good ice.

[riverrat56]

Was out on Clear lake tonight 4 inches of ice, only fished for about an hour, no bites.

[icecold]

River rat ,how far did you walk out, on the lake, this summer it was pretty shallow along way out, what depth is it out there know?

[riverrat56]

We were out to about the where the weedpoint is, straight out from the landing, 6ft to maybe 6 1/2, be careful if you go out, stay away from the cattails because there is a few springs that come in and from what i have found there is only about 2 inches of ice past the point out there but there may be more now. About the deepest you will find is 7 ft out there. Also if you get about a block out from the landing it drops off to about 5 and then slopes to 6 and basically stays there. We plan on going out saterday afternoon again.

RR56