Ice conditions

[West Basin]

Clem, Earl and I wanted to say we’ve been ice fishing on Lake Erie in April, so we went ice fishing yesterday! Earl has a Kevlar bottom inflatable airboat, so we launched early morning from the Power Plant ramp and headed out to the Maumee Bay shipping channel light. Crossed open water until we got to the ice flow, rode it until we found a solid area and set up. Ice there was still pretty good, just under 7 inches thick. Caught 3 walleye, one 6 pounder, lost two, in three hours and headed back due to forecast strong west winds. Got back and Clem couldn’t find his camera. He sat in on the equipment bags so it probably bounced out of the boat and is resting at the bottom of the lake. Rats, no photos of the trip! You can see our boat light on the NOAA ship channel webcam - http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/recon/...t-webcam2.html - it’s the blue photo in the night photos at the bottom of the page, April 01, 7am. Can you believe it?!

[BossHogg]

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