ice safety

Post by **Bass Addict** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:43 pm

Drove by the Ottawa and the Gatineau river tonight , both look to be in terrible shape , lots of water on the surface.

Post by **ottis** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:49 pm

I drove over the Castor River right in Embrun at 5PM, poor dudes hut was almost bobbing. The Nation in Crysler (upstream) wasn't fairing much better..and the Payne...well that river is wider now than there was with ice last week.

Hopefully the water that is there moves through quick and and the run off slows up with the slightly colder temperatures the next few nights.

Post by **Adrien** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:51 pm

went to shirleys bay instead today. ice was 3 feet deep in 10-15 feet of water. took all of the aueger to get through. so much water. wish i had boot cleats. i walked on alot of people stil drover. way too much water. it was fun though, you guys better lift your shack or you will have to chip them out. had one but lost it at the hole. it was probably 1-2 pound fish. nothing else

Post by **joco** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:48 pm

OTTIS

wen there is good rain castor and nation river becomes..like coffee..those river get realy effect by rain sadly...and current goes up realy fast. this is sad because the derby is this saturday....good luck to all.

i will be in caselamn that day..mabe will go see what is going down there.

the wetaer sher did change in the last couple off hours.

.this will help a lot..that wind is good to dry that stuff.

but might,,mabe still have slush under that icy snow on top if there still some.

so have rubber boots and crampons.

..both could be good.

joco

Post by **troutnmuskiehunter** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:00 am

Adrien wrote:went to shirleys bay instead today. ice was 3 feet deep in 10-15 feet of water. took all of the aueger to get through. so much water. wish i had boot cleats. i walked on alot of people stil drover. way too much water. it was fun though, you guys better lift your shack or you will have to chip them out. had one but lost it at the hole. it was probably 1-2 pound fish. nothing else

Some parts of the river do not have 3' thick ice!!.....we measured ice thickness on Wednesday here on the Ottawa R in 15FOW and in this location it was only 18" thick.....Don't assume that there's 3' of ice everywhere...it's all dependant on current, shoals, depth, etc.....