Ice conditions

[Sparky60]

Thanks for the great information on the ice conditions, I am from Wisconsin and we still have 30" of ice on Winnebago (My home lake) I have my first trip to Erie scheduled for the 1st week of May and I am getting both anxious and nervous because of the ice. I retired in January and fishing has now become my fulltime pastime. Also a special thanks to Skipper 9, year after year when I check this site for my upcoming trips, Jim is the first guy I look for and he's always there with good info. Thanks again, us out of staters, really appreciate you guys and this site.

[stampman]

Talk to someone thurs. 3-27-14 said they where still going out of put-in-bay.

[branhamautomotive]

sparky if your first trip is early may you will be all good to go. I cant imagine any way there would still be ice here by then

[branhamautomotive]

sat pics looks the ice is really working its way out of here wont be long now

[Daddyhags]

Ice is slowly melting.

[BILLY JOE]

was in P.C yesterday open water far as i could see water was very dirty and rolling waves should help melt ice i would think

[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?!