Is your lake frozen?

[birdstrike]

Why are some lakes freezing over and not others? I'm guessing there is some formula involving the volume of the lake and it's surface area. This is interesting to me because the little lake that I live on does not freeze. It's only 15 acres and not one speck of ice. Wish it would freeze as every goose in a 100 mile radius is in it right now, honk- honk I'm guessing the high volume of water due to it's depth and it's relatively small surface area keeps the water from cooling rapidly.

Looks like Rough and Cedar Creek are frozen. What's the state of your lake?

[WacoWildcat]

I think current may have something to do with it. I drove by the kentucky river yesterday in madison county and it's not frozen at all. Every other lake I have seen around here is frozen though.

[Devils Horse]

Peninsula at Barren was iced in yesterday, so we went over to Bailey's point and busted through a thin sheet to get launched. Pretty wild sounds the ice makes out there on the lake. Caught one slot fish on a VERY slowly presented shakey head, nothing else.

[artcarney_agr]

birdstrike.......Those geese are what's keeping your lake open! Anytime you've got constant motion in water, or "ripples", it will stay open. Shoot, I wish it was still duck/goose season.....all a guy would have to do right now is find open water like you've got and you could fill your freezer in a hurry!

[Chubminnow]

Kind of funny this post appears the same week (this saturday) that Kentucky Afield will be doing a show on Ice Fishing in Kentucky...yea that's right, Ice Fishing right here in the Bluegrass state. I have never ice fished and wouldn't have thought any water (farm ponds included) around here would be solid enough to support it, maybe in years past but not this year, it doesn't seem like it's been cold enough for long enough to me. It should be an interesting show.

[phoenix]

No ice at Dale Hollow, at least not at Hendricks Creek. Funny though, they have 3" thick ice at Lees Ford on Cumberland.

[Grumpy]

I was talking to a friend just this afternoon and he said he saw on the news that some fools were driving ATVs on a lake and fell through the ice. They got them out ok but he didn't know what lake they were talking about. Even with the cold spell we have had, there is no way I would venture out on the ice around here.

[Rudypoo4444]

All the small lakes and ponds in my area that I usually fish this time of year are frozen, and it is really getting old. I want to go fishing.

[flippinstick]

Me and the Lab went to Long Run park Saturday evening and walked way out on it. It looked to be frozen 4-6" thick, there was only one spot on the whole lake that wasnt frozen and man it had to have at least 1000 ducks and geese on it. Some spots that didnt have snow you could see the bottom of the lake thru the ice. I have heard of people ice fishing there but wasnt any holes drilled that I saw. Id say this frozen lake stuff is about all over with.

[RoadToad]

Me and the Lab went to Long Run park Saturday evening and walked way out on it. It looked to be frozen 4-6" thick, there was only one spot on the whole lake that wasnt frozen and man it had to have at least 1000 ducks and geese on it. Some spots that didnt have snow you could see the bottom of the lake thru the ice. I have heard of people ice fishing there but wasnt any holes drilled that I saw. Id say this frozen lake stuff is about all over with.

Looks like it's supposed to get above 50 on Tuesday, and stay above freezing through Thursday at least. I wonder if that lake will melt by then? If so, I might just go there instead of Guist. I've seen some nice crappie caught at Long Run.

It should only be another month or so before Miles Park gets its spring stocking of trout. Can't wait for that!

[kc]

Kind of funny this post appears the same week (this saturday) that Kentucky Afield will be doing a show on Ice Fishing in Kentucky...yea that's right, Ice Fishing right here in the Bluegrass state. I have never ice fished and wouldn't have thought any water (farm ponds included) around here would be solid enough to support it, maybe in years past but not this year, it doesn't seem like it's been cold enough for long enough to me. It should be an interesting show.

We don't get ice thick enough for ice fishing often in KY but I have been here all my life and I can remember 2 winters when ice fishing was doable. The winter of '78 we had ice on ponds 14" - 18" thick and the Ohio river mostly froze over. We were ice fishing into March. It was surreal going ice fishing that time of year on a 65 degree day.

They say 2" is thick enough to support walking on ice but I don't like to get out there until it gets to 4". I heard from an acquaintence at work that he had been ice fishing and the ice on the pond he fished was 5" - 6". It's a good way to get off of the couch and fill up a bucket full of bluegills.

kc

[ranger_391]

Our BASS club held our annual ice fishing contest last weekend. The guys were needing extentions on their power augers to get through it. Some where over 4 feet of ice.

Anybody want to move to northern Wisconsin?

Scott....