Went down to beaver this morning and the ice is deteriorating rapidly. The surface water has sunk through and we are definitely getting into the honeycomb stage. The guys in the main group in these pics say its over 20 inches out there. The guy close up I'm not sure is either ultra ballsy or a complete idiot! Seemed like a nice guy though.... Kind of freaked us out when he left where is in this pics and walked half way to the edge to talk to us. He apparently was on 3 to 4 inches and yes that is an open spot in the ice he is fishing in. We tried under the bridge for awhile but had no bites so left after an hour and a half. The forcast looks like there may be a bit of a cool down so maybe we can scratch out another weekend yet on oahe. To the boys out east this is why us western guys were getting nervous about our ice by the end of Jan! At this point the ice is more like the end of March ice instead of mid February ice.
