Early Ice

[Mr. Pike]

Suppose to be cold next week. Highs in the 20's, lows in the single digits. Think we'll be fishing by Dec 1 this year?

 

[cooter00]

Kettle lake north of Williston was frozen solid didn't stop to check thickness

 

[Kurtr]

Time to get the boat ramp rocks out

 

[Auggie]

A friend shot a deer and had to pull it across the Heart River last night. Last Sunday while heading to church, the Heart had a few skims of ice on it.

 

[Eatsleeptrap]

Bring it!! Always a relief when you are getting ready and you made it through another off season mouse free.

 

[Trip McNeely]

The back bays of audobon are frozen solid as of yesterday. Suprised I didn’t see one of you clowns out there yet

 

[cooter00]

I wouldn't be surprised if people were already on the ice at tobacco gardens that's one of the early ice spots

 

[701FishSlayer]

Was on 8" ice on lake darling 2 years ago today. Facebook memories popped up.

 

[ndfinfan]

Can't imagine there won't be lot's of ice fishing reports coming in this week with overnight lows below zero.

 

[Auggie]

I hope to hit the ice next weekend. NDSU NDAWN has soil temp sensors across the state at various depths. Lake temps mirror pretty close soil temps (there's a lag for Devils and Sak). This link shows the soil temps.
https://ndawn.info/soil.html

 

[luvcatchingbass]

I'm not quite ready yet, still want to get a little more hunting in.

 

[Shockwave]

I saw some Facebook posts of people out. Patterson and Audubon for sure. I think by this weekend we will be good to go on the bays and smaller bodies of water. I plan to check out a few spots and get some lines wet.

 

[Weekender]

There were people ice fishing Audubon on Saturday. There will be vehicles on the ice this upcoming weekend with these temps that are forecasted.

 

[ndfinfan]

There were people ice fishing Audubon on Saturday. There will be vehicles on the ice this upcoming weekend with these temps that are forecasted.

Crazy town!

 

[Jiffy]

And let the pickups start falling through…

 

[Eatsleeptrap]

Be careful boys. Plenty of open water out there. One lake has the oddest open spots. Scattered spots 50-100 feet across wide open. No ducks or geese doing it. In the basins too, not over sunken structure. Strange.

 

[Stinger]

Saw one pop up fishing Sak at the state park east of Williston. That can be a hot hot bite first ice.