Fished Murray today, 11-22. Wide open. Water temp still in the low 40's. Should be open for a couple weeks yet. Wish I could say I caught something. Spent nearly eight hours on the water.

Charlie

We (Jim tenHaaf and I) were there today, and in the early morning it was ~40% covered with a thin (1/16") skin with maybe 15% more covered with thicker ice, up to 3/8". Water was 33-35°F.

Later in the day most of the ice melted so the lake was 85% clear, but a few more sub-freezing nights and it'll be iced over completely.

Thee aren't any fish in there, anyway! 👿

Thanks all, I might try a little ice-breaking on Ovid today, and Murray next weekend, that might do it for the season but we'll see…

The biggest problem with Ovid is that the parts that were frozen were the parts with nice cover ie weeds. We were marking fish as we crunched through the ice, but seldom saw anything on the graph in the open water.

Ovid was about like I feared after a calm cold Sat night, John C's pic in the reports section showed the launch area after a few of us rammed through the ice, and a lot of the lake had it over the best areas. It was 1" thick in spots, enough to where a big rock thrown near the ramp didn't break it, and my bow went up onto it in spots before my heavier friend move to the front of the boat to break through. Oh' well, no prop or transducer damage and good to get out.