Watch your Step

Another very eventful week of weather here in New England as summer like conditions has made an impact on our ice conditions. Rain has followed as well and the winds are blowing all of this warm air across our ice covered lakes. With the potential of heavy flooding rains this weekend, the ice conditions in our area are starting to wear and erode fairly quickly and safe travel once again needs to be heeded. The top of the ice is honeycombing and mushy and your foot goes through this with ease for a couple of inches until you hit the solid layer of ice. Under that, the ice is still solid but with the next couple of day’s weather, that layer will go deeper and the ice is going to be getting softer. Shoreline access on some lakes already is fading away and the shorelines with all day shade will possibly be the hardest ice for getting on the lakes and ponds. Now is the time that we need to watch our small children and family pets if this weather continues like this and makes the ice conditions unsafe. We have been fortunate to have a long ice season this past year and we have taken full advantage of it. But it is a sad day when we need to think about retiring our ice fishing gear for another year and hopefully this is not that last weekend.

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