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Old 01-16-2010, 10:59 PM   #1
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Default Ice Report

2 inchs of ice 100 feet off Parker island heading to Rattlesnake with much melting today.
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Old 01-17-2010, 08:57 AM   #2
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Default Warning; Winni Ice Conditions

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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Old 01-17-2010, 09:46 AM   #3
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Default I Agree!

"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!

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