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2 inchs of ice 100 feet off Parker island heading to Rattlesnake with much melting today.
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This is a post from another forum (iceshanty.com) where hundreds of NH icefishermen monitor, and this poster is a very reliable source of info on the big lake. So I wanted to pass this info on to the Winni Forum because I felt this is very important.
I did a lot of traveling around the lake today and found conditions ranging from 15 inches of ice down to 1/2 inch, YES ONE HALF OF AN INCH!!!! There is an enormous area of water with only 1/2 inch between long island and steamboat island.DO NOT GO PAST 6 MILE ISLAND TOWARDS THE BROADS YOU WILL DIE!! with the snow coming tomorrow it is going to hide a lot of BIG pressure cracks some as much as 12 feet wide, don't cross anything suspicious without checking first. How do i know there is a half inch of ice, I grabbed a small rock from steamboat island walked out to the edge and threw the rock, it went right through. The lake goes from 7 inches to 1/2 inch on a perfect line. I went inside steamboat towards the forty islands and found plenty of ice again, but when i tried to walk out from there across the northenr broads towards sandy there was 4 inches of spongy ice not whit or black but a milky weak mix of ice snow and air, it was not strong. Now here is the kicker, the broads off ellacoya have 5 -6 inches of good black ice out very very far and there are bob houses a haf mile from shore on the broads. Just because it is good there it is not safe other places. Be so careful out there please. Have someone walk ahead with a chisel and the others far behind with a rope if you venture towards the broads and with the mild temps this coming week we have a very dangerous scenario. People are going to see bobhouses on the broads and just snowmobile out there thinking it is safe, it's not.
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gilford, NH / Welch Island
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"People are going to see bobhouses on the broads and just snowmobile out there thinking it is safe, it's not."
Riverat; I couldn't agree more, and with the snow we have coming to cover, it's going to give some people a false sense of security to venture out farther than they should. No cold weather due this week either! Be safe! Dan |
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