Busch Lakes Iced Up

[BredMan]

I did a drive through at BWL today and as expected all the stocked trout lakes are iced over. With the low temps and not much of a change the next several days, those who like to ice fish may get an early start. The 'toss a log' and 'toss a big rock' on the ice tests have already been completed by someone. Better get those ice augers fired up and running.

[MnWalleyeGuy]

Can hardly wait. Auger is all gassed up and ready to go!

[ozark trout fisher]

Can hardly wait. Auger is all gassed up and ready to go!

You guys that ice fish out at Busch are nuts..... Do what you want, but people go through every year at Busch Wildlife during trout season (luckily there haven't been any deaths that I know of, but it's just a matter of time), so you might get the idea that it isn't exactly safe. There isn't near enough ice yet for it to be even marginally safe-maybe by late December or January it might be kind of okay. To each their own, but you just might think twice before you go out there.

Ice fishing in Missouri, in my opinion, is always a little like playing Russian Roulette. Not worth a limit of stockers IMO. The possible exception to that was last winter, when it froze way harder than usual and there was about a foot of solid ice. That's probably safe, but still I wasn't going out on it. It may be just me, but the idea of dying by falling through ice into freezing cold water doesn't sound like much fun.

[mhall02]

You guys that ice fish out at Busch are nuts..... Do what you want, but people go through every year at Busch Wildlife during trout season (luckily there haven't been any deaths that I know of, but it's just a matter of time), so you might get the idea that it isn't exactly safe. There isn't near enough ice yet for it to be even marginally safe-maybe by late December or January it might be kind of okay. To each their own, but you just might think twice before you go out there.

Ice fishing in Missouri, in my opinion, is always a little like playing Russian Roulette. Not worth a limit of stockers IMO. The possible exception to that was last winter, when it froze way harder than usual and there was about a foot of solid ice. That's probably safe, but still I wasn't going out on it. It may be just me, but the idea of dying by falling through ice into freezing cold water doesn't sound like much fun.

X2, well said.

[Wayne SW/MO]

The possible exception to that was last winter, when it froze way harder than usual and there was about a foot of solid ice.

That's surprising today. Decades ago ice skating on lakes and creeks in central to north Missouri was an annual event, but I don't think it happens very often now. North Missouri might still experience it, but I haven't been there in the winter in 30 years.

[jah]

That's surprising today. Decades ago ice skating on lakes and creeks in central to north Missouri was an annual event, but I don't think it happens very often now. North Missouri might still experience it, but I haven't been there in the winter in 30 years.

I went to school at Truman State in Kirksville, MO and graduated in 1996. We used to play ice hockey on the ponds up there every winter, and they were frozen solid. I would never do that in St Louis at the same time---it was darn cold up there.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I went to school at Truman State in Kirksville, MO and graduated in 1996. We used to play ice hockey on the ponds up there every winter, and they were frozen solid. I would never do that in St Louis at the same time---it was darn cold up there.

I spent most of my youth in Trenton. We built fires on the ice when we ice skated on the creek. Never had any desire to fish through the ice though.

[stlfisher]

I went to school at Truman State in Kirksville, MO and graduated in 1996. We used to play ice hockey on the ponds up there every winter, and they were frozen solid. I would never do that in St Louis at the same time---it was darn cold up there.

Went to school at Truman too...started in 1996. Those 7:30am walks to class in January...hungover as all hell were just brutal.

[eric1978]

28 was almost completely clear today, but won't be for long.

I asked a couple guys with a bucket if they were fishing with bait. One guy said no but he don't give a darn about the regs anyway and if he catches a "lunker" he's keeping it...the agents can go to hell, he said. I said okay.

[T Hood]

28 was almost completely clear today, but won't be for long.

I asked a couple guys with a bucket if they were fishing with bait. One guy said no but he don't give a darn about the regs anyway and if he catches a "lunker" he's keeping it...the agents can go to hell, he said. I said okay.

Great attitude!

People that are uninformed are one thing; outright disregard is another. Guys like him are reason enough to be concerned about having fish to catch in the future. I know the winter Rainbows aren't sustainable and they'll all be caught. But, with this attitude, how does he treat the rest of the places he fishes?