Safe ice now?

[thehunter]

Please post any comments here if you have been out of Camp Perry/Catawba fishing since Feb. 1.
There were many 12" open cracks with thin (4") ice at the edges last Saturday.
(see my other posting).
Am a little worried about the ice conditions for this weekend, wondering how things are going to be/freeze-up with all this snow.

Info would be appreciated by all, thanks in advance.

[Madd Matt]

http://iceweb1.cis.ec.gc.ca/Prod20/page3.xhtml

[stanton21]

WOW..that dont tell ya $ hi&&.. Unless your standing there.

[Jawbreaker]

Those cracks open and close virtually every day, depending on wind direction. Only way to know for sure is to talk to someone who's there, or go look your self. I think South and Southwest are the winds you don't want. I'm no expert, but know a few who spend quite a lot of time out there. A buddy of mine posted a video on facebook of them crossing one of those cracks on a side by side Saturday night. Didn't look like much fun, unless you like being puckered up.

[Mckaax]

I'd like to see that video. What is his name so I can take a look

[thehunter]

We were riding double on my friend's 4 wheeler but I got off before he drove over the open crack pulling two clam shelters. He was safely on the other side but now I had to get across. I walked south toward shore along the crack hoping to find a spot where the crack came together or something like that.......it didn't so I jumped across it without incident. I had a throw bag attached to my back pack I was wearing. Had I been thinking I would have tossed it across the crack to my friend, tied the other end around me and THEN jumped across the crack........... I won't forget that.
SOUTH wind predicted for Saturday....... I notified my friends that I'm not going this weekend. Few years ago I was out of Crane Creek driving across the near shore crack & plywood all month, and even the day before the flow broke. Buds wanted me to go again that day, Saturday, with 20mph South wind......... I said nope. Glad I did...........
Lucky