Ice Fishing

[Justin92297]

Yesterday I went to my neighborhood lake and found that the ice was at least 4 inches thick. My friend and I were able to walk all the way across. Anyone think ice fishing would be worth a shot on some of the trout lakes in the county or the ones at Busch? I know it's supposed to warm up a bit but I don't know enough about this to know weather it would be enough to effect the ice. Any suggestions?

[Flatbottom Boy]

I've done quite a bit of ice fishing in different areas of the country. Once a lake freezes up the fish seem to go into a feeding frenzy. It can be really good fishing for a month or so, then they tend to slow down. I would be very carefull when dealing with only 4 inches, and even more careful as this week moves on with the much warmer temps in the forecast. Fishing ponds up in Iowa that I had never been to I would use a rope tied off at the shore just in case. Just tie it off to a tree or something and lay the rope near where I was fishing. I never knew where the springs were located so just to be safe I took a couple precautions. Bottom line be safe...might be better off just waiting till next sunday, I'm guessing most of this hard water is going to be gone with 60 degree temps.