Who hit the reset button?

Looks like we’ll be headed north and west in the coming weeks. This is rediculous.

The image attached is for the forecast for Minneapolis, MN.

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I know right!! Temps here in West MI are below freezing at night, just enough to have skim ice on the shallow back bays of my first ice lake…only to be gone by mid-day with temps in the upper 40’s and rain. Extended outlook shows no change in this…I really hope we don’t finally get a solid 2″ of ice only to get 12″+ of snow, if that happens I’m cutting the shrink wrap off my boat and driving south every weekend!!

And my new otter just came in the mail and its sitting in the garage

Ive heard they reopened URL as of yesterday. weather looks like it warms up there past freezing also heading into next week although not that bad. might have to take a road trip

James, you gotta take up Deer Hunting… You could be filming fill-ins right now

It’s my fault !!!

I go and get me a hovercraft and it’s like the Bahamas down here !!

it’s “always” you Dave…

Warm temps!!

Hello river fishing.

James Holst wrote:

Looks like we’ll be headed north and west in the coming weeks. This is rediculous.

rediculous
adjective red·ic·u·lous \rəd-ick-yə-ləs\

: extremely silly or unreasonable weather that drives all ice fishing fanatics to red lake.

Blame it on El Nino! The weather forecasters are predicting a warmer than normal winter in the Dakotas! I have a feeling ice fishing on the Missouri River impoundments will be limited at best. Oh well, the boats can still hit the open water.

4walleye wrote:

Blame it on El Nino! The weather forecasters are predicting a warmer than normal winter in the Dakotas! I have a feeling ice fishing on the Missouri River impoundments will be limited at best. Oh well, the boats can still hit the open water.

+1, NASA and other smart folks have predicted this for months…

It sure looks like a couple more duck hunts will be in order instead of early ice over here in SD. Best case almost feels like it should all just melt off and start over, ice will be sketchy all year at this point.

I sent a friend of mine to a little honey hole. 4-5″ of ice and plenty of decent fish

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schoff wrote:

It sure looks like a couple more duck hunts will be in order instead of early ice over here in SD. Best case almost feels like it should all just melt off and start over, ice will be sketchy all year at this point.

My thought as well. In western MN we had an inch or so of ice before the snow hit. Ice will be terrible if it doesn’t all melt and we get a redo.The 10 day forecast is calling for upper 40s so I think we’ll get a fresh start.

A little more info on El Nino

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/el-nino/2861308

Well James, I guess you’ll have to show us how to catch late late fall, early winter walleyes from open water on the Mississippi…

Usually look to be on the ice for my birthday but I don’t see enough ice by the 12th. Guess I’ll cut wood.

lake Sakakawea has walkable ice over here in the western part of NODAK

I don’t get what everyone is so torn up about. I’d rather spend a day in my boat than in my otter HANDS DOWN. Going to be the river for me until maybe the holidays.

The only reason I ice fish is to keep my sanity during January and February. Not because I actually enjoy doing it.

Tim Bossert wrote:

Well James, I guess you’ll have to show us how to catch late late fall, early winter walleyes from open water on the Mississippi…

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I’m hoping to get back on the ice friday! 10″ of ice in utah last Friday and it’s been cold!

Yep…..

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Tim Bossert wrote:

Well James, I guess you’ll have to show us how to catch late late fall, early winter walleyes from open water on the Mississippi… ” class=”wp-smiley”>

That’s an option. Of course I sold my boat so that does complicate things more than a little.

I think it more likely that we’ll just get in the truck and drive. North Dakota, Montana, somewhere in Canada. My feet have been on ice and it would be hard to get geared up to get back in a boat so soon.

Tim J wrote:

I don’t get what everyone is so torn up about

Different strokes. Different folks. I spent so much time on the river during the winter back in my guiding days I have a hard time getting jacked about now. Of course if ever there was a year to do it this would be it.

GREAT PIC!!! I got a good chuckle from that Thanx..

I hear ya James, but you weren’t doing a show back in your guiding days. Now it is a great opportunity to share that experience with a larger audience.

Is IDO becoming an ice fishing only experience? Sometimes ya just gotta go with what Mother Nature gives you. Lemonade out of lemons…

James, bring the filming gear down to the Rum River, I got a secret spot!!!

Looking back over the years, I can remember at least a couple years not being able to ice fish until after CHRISTmas. … rrr

Tim J wrote:

I don’t get what everyone is so torn up about. I’d rather spend a day in my boat than in my otter HANDS DOWN.

For me ice fishing is what I look forward to all year. I have a nice boat and enjoy fishing and cruising in it but ice fishing is my favorite outdoor activity. I like it because you are free to do other activities while fishing like: BBQ, throw the football around and play hockey, have a bonfire, and of course drink with less consequences (sleeping overnight in the shack rather than drive the boat around), and my beer never gets cold. Being out on the lake in the middle of the night feels like im camping out in the country somewhere or up north far far from the city. I cant get that feeling doing anything else while in the city and I think that’s what I like most about it. Sometimes I catch fish too

James Holst wrote:

Of course I sold my boat so that does complicate things more than a little.

@jamesholst

Sold your boat? What the deuce?