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Got a little ice fishing in this week. First time we had safe ice all year, went twice, and the ice will be bad in a couple days.
There was a nice group of swans hanging around all day. They decided to leave the same time I was walking back to the vehicle.
There was a nice group of swans hanging around all day. They decided to leave the same time I was walking back to the vehicle.
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Only caught 5 keepers, but they were tasty. :licking:
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Great pics Moss!!!
Glad you finally got some ice time!!!!
We're in a big warm up here. I tried to walk out on the pond ice to "bed" the Goose nest box but the ice wouldn't hold me. Will have to do it tomorrow out of the loader bucket.
I'm in a heavy "Goose Migration Path". Several formations of Snow Geese flying today.
Glad you finally got some ice time!!!!
We're in a big warm up here. I tried to walk out on the pond ice to "bed" the Goose nest box but the ice wouldn't hold me. Will have to do it tomorrow out of the loader bucket.
I'm in a heavy "Goose Migration Path". Several formations of Snow Geese flying today.
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Yeah, we had slush last weekend, it froze up to 5" of very good solid ice by Thursday. It was 19 during the day Thursday, and it was making ice loudly all afternoon until we left after dark, around 7:30pm. Yesterday was in the 40's. I was sitting on a bucket in jeans and a t-shirt with no hat or gloves and my jacket wide open and I was sweating. By the time I was leaving around 3:30 there was 1/4" of slush and some running water in the cracks already. It was 54 today. Glad I got out.
I fulfilled a promise to my wife this year and purchased an ice fishing jacket that floats. So now I'll die of hypothermia VS drowning. :laughing:
Snow geese are very rare here. See a couple each year. Our canada geese never migrate. They're permanent residents here. As long as there's open water, they stay. Heck, even the sandhill cranes never migrated this year. They stayed. I saw hundreds of them yesterday, but too far away to take pics with the iPhone.
I fulfilled a promise to my wife this year and purchased an ice fishing jacket that floats. So now I'll die of hypothermia VS drowning. :laughing:
Snow geese are very rare here. See a couple each year. Our canada geese never migrate. They're permanent residents here. As long as there's open water, they stay. Heck, even the sandhill cranes never migrated this year. They stayed. I saw hundreds of them yesterday, but too far away to take pics with the iPhone.
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Here's a couple more...
Geese sleeping in the inlet creek to the lake.
5" of ice, a pole, and my fish finder.
Geese walking east with the wind.
Geese turning west into the wind right before they took off.
Looking east
Not a cloud in the sky. I got a little pink on the old noggin. :laughing:
Geese sleeping in the inlet creek to the lake.
5" of ice, a pole, and my fish finder.
Geese walking east with the wind.
Geese turning west into the wind right before they took off.
Looking east
Not a cloud in the sky. I got a little pink on the old noggin. :laughing:
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Looking west towards a wetland outlet area of the lake where the Sandhills were, about 1/2 mile away.
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I have a set of picks exactly like this. They stick together and hang around my neck. I also have a whistle attached to them. It jingle when I move around and I feel like a dairy cow. :laughing:
