need to ask all the smart one,s on this board
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when the overnight temp is from 5° to 10° and the day time temp is 25° to 30° with wind 10 to 15 mph,then does anyone know how much ice it should make in 24 hrs.
That depends on so many things that I doubt anyone is going to come forward with an answer for you. Lake size, depth, water clarity (stained water sucks up more sun), bottom content, ducks (yes, ducks), and the beat goes on.
I usually figure a week of single digit nights will put enough ice on any lake to support me – haven’t gone through yet. There’s always at least 6″ of ice when I go out though – maybe someone else who trusts less ice will chime in.
Its kinda like this,,,,
If a chicken and a half, can lay an egg and a half, in a day and a half,
How many pancakes would it take, for a spider with a wooden leg,to shingle the roof of a dog house ?
Have another cup of coffee ec!
Hey EC. I think I need to drink something to figure that one out. LOL
Is that one of those tounge twisters you learned when you were young and now got it screwed up or somethng. 
Steve
Crappie-doer, we had those conditions down here in S.E. Ia. the other day. I found a small timber pond that was protected from the wind, and it had about 1 1/2 inches of new ice on it. I got out on it for a ways but it started to sag under my fat ars, so to the bank I went. New ice is not always “good” ice. With the conditions you describe, I’d give it at least 2 days or more before safe ice is made. Personally, I’d want 2 1/2 to 3 inches before I feel safe.
Be safe 
Hey Leinie and Herb, NICE PICS! It’s good to see a couple of smiling faces with fish!
Tuck
EC
I need some more info to anwer your question… we talking potato pancakes or just plain old bisquik pancakes. It makes a big difference.
We both need to go land a few!
That almost made sense to me ? I figured it out !!! But I forgot the answer !! I need sleep.
Richard (Smitty) 
Keep a tight line !!!
None! Budweiser just don’t cut the wood. LOL It would only take one Leinies, but it would be pretty large one. Steve
Hey Tuck,Thanks for the compliment on the photo. Anytime I catch a fish it’s time to smile. Did you notice that nice Knuckleball jig tipped with a doo? 
Steve
We had conditions like that and it just happens that I left a glass of water on the porch. froze clear to the bottom. I got the ice out in one chunk, stood on it and it held me up just fine. Guess I’ll go fishin.
I can give you some anectodal info: Thursday was the first day of the cold snap – I wasn’t around, but I think that’s right. Saturday afternoon I drove down to lake MacBride to see if anyone was fishing. It’s a 1000 acre impoundment with little or no flow during the winter. Easily 3/4 of the lake was open water still, and there were only a couple of shaded bays where people were on the ice.
Sunday I drove back down, and the whole lake surface was frozen. Where there had been a skim before, there was now about 4-5 inches of good ice. Where there was open water, it was still unsafe, but I would guess by tomorrow (Tues) the entire lake will be safe for walking.
EC!!! Is this the style of all your new polls? 
uah ? 
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Lifes to short to fish with dead minnows! Jim
HICCUP!
Treez? Wat treez?????
Pass me another Bud…..
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