Hard water anywhere?

Post by **SteveO** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:31 pm

Lake Temiskaming has no ice. I'm heading up tomorrow - needless to say I am a little disappointed. I am up there for 11 days...hopefully it cools down enough...

Post by **joco** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:35 pm

hi steve o........

i no how you feel......

iamgine that lake is a bit up north and still........no ice....

there must be a dance we can make to have some ice.there a dance for rain what the dance for ice......

Post by **Doug** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:41 pm

back to orssey......

sent you a pm, hope to pick your brain. I did not go as far north as Sharbot Lake until late in the season, so really I was talking about our local lakes like Dog............

Might have to get the boat out of storage...

Doug

Post by **Suddsy** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:58 pm

Hey Doug; It was a weird winter last year for ice-fishing in areas north of Kingston and Gananoque.

I was fishing on the Rideau near Kemptville with lots of good ice in very early January while Charleston Lake was about three weeks behind before it was reasonably comfortable to be out there and even then you needed to be careful about where you went. It seemed we got some colder weather earlier than the areas south of us. I hope you get to enjoy our cold weather as early as we do this year so we don't have to suffer alone....and you get to ice fish earlier than last year.

Larry

Post by **bucketmouth** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:39 pm

I've heard reports of 10"+ of the hard stuff on Lac des Milles Lacs in T-Bay if you're up for a little drive

Driving out with quads and their hardsides already... bastids!

Don

Post by **Wallyboss** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:07 pm

Geez Bucket I might be going half way there on Boxing day.

Post by **topraider** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:54 am

On a positive note, this mild weather has extended my steelhead fishing. I'm headed down to Lake Ontario for a couple days (in the rain) before Christmas, and hopefully, with no cold weather in sight, will be doing it between Christmas and New Years for the first time ever.

I haven't even thought about ice fishing yet.

Post by **Doug** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:33 am

back to topraider, absolutely right! Before I became a bow-hunting fanatic, I was a 'bow-fishing fanatic and December was the month for the chrome-sided steelies. But back then I lived near Barrie and had some fabulous streams within an hour or so: the Beaver, Pine, Nottawasaga, Mad, Pretty, etc etc. Now I am in Kingston and it is a bit more of a hike. I suppose I should try to get permission on the upper Ganaraska again....I did not like the ZOO I saw on the lower Ganny the last time I went down there.........

I am not sure which is more fun: standing in a steelhead stream up your parts in frigid water, trying to keep the ice out of the rod guides, or sitting in a tree with the wind in your eyes trying to be quiet and still and hoping to murder a deer in cold blood.......but they both beat the snot out of working!

I am guessing there are some steelheaders who are also bow hunters, but both kinds of guys tend to be a bit fanatical, and either choose to spend December with the bow, or with the waders on, but not both!

Happy steelheading!

Doug