Ice

[Shaun_300]

Who's ice is all gone? The Ottawa River is partially open where we fish, where the current channel is where the Madawaska River flows into it, across to the Quebec side and down under the train bridge towards Fitzroy Harbour. Golden Lake is still frozen stiff, Ice usually goes off the lake mid-april there.

[Ravin R10 man]

Just got in from Winnibagosh near Grand Rapids Mn. we had 30" of ice today nearly anywhere on the lake..friday there was 2" of water all over draining into the holes..like driving on an open river..Andy was freaked out..lOL he made me stop and drill to check the ice depth..LOL Man..i had fun with him for awhile there... got into the jumbo perch today..Andy got a walleye and an eelpout..i landed a 4-1/2# northern on light jig rod. we were 6 miles out today..used GPS to put us on structure and get us back that was cool

[TBow]

The St. Lawrence is pretty much wide open. The icebreaker/buoy tender doesn't usually start putting the buoys out until late March or early April, but they could almost put them in right now if they could get here from Lake Erie. The Welland Canal doesn't open up for another week or more to let the ice breaker get here from there.

The St. Lawrence is also pretty low right now by comparison to what its water level usually is at this time of year. There's just no snow melting to replenish the depleting water levels. Unless we get a really wet spring and summer, the Great Lakes Basin and St. Lawrence will likely see record low water levels this year. A few years ago the water levels were low here and the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority had to start restricting commercial shipping with excessive drafts as they were bottoming in sporadic areas throughout the river.

TBow

[Slash]

The St. Lawrence is pretty much wide open. The icebreaker/buoy tender doesn't usually start putting the buoys out until late March or early April, but they could almost put them in right now if they could get here from Lake Erie. The Welland Canal doesn't open up for another week or more to let the ice breaker get here from there.

The St. Lawrence is also pretty low right now by comparison to what its water level usually is at this time of year. There's just no snow melting to replenish the depleting water levels. Unless we get a really wet spring and summer, the Great Lakes Basin and St. Lawrence will likely see record low water levels this year. A few years ago the water levels were low here and the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority had to start restricting commercial shipping with excessive drafts as they were bottoming in sporadic areas throughout the river.

TBow

New experience for me, it looked like there was no ice. I have some pictures of the lake I'll post.

[Slash]

Just got in from Winnibagosh near Grand Rapids Mn. we had 30" of ice today nearly anywhere on the lake..friday there was 2" of water all over draining into the holes..like driving on an open river..Andy was freaked out..lOL he made me stop and drill to check the ice depth..LOL Man..i had fun with him for awhile there... got into the jumbo perch today..Andy got a walleye and an eelpout..i landed a 4-1/2# northern on light jig rod. we were 6 miles out today..used GPS to put us on structure and get us back that was cool

New experience for me, it looked like there was no ice at all. I have some pictures of the lake I'll post.

[Ravin R10 man]

New experience for me, it looked like there was no ice at all. I have some pictures of the lake I'll post.

I told Andy...while it may look like were walking on water, and NO, Im not "Jesus"........BUT....I did stay at a "Holiday Inn" once....LOL

[Muff]

yep all of our ice is gone as of this weekend....we still had some along the shore before the weekend but the high winds took care of that.....and your right about the water level Tbow......we are really low here.