Simcoe's First Attempt at Freezing

[John Whyte]

Crazy cold here in Orillia. Watching the lake freeze over coffee

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[jerpears]

Today has me excited in terms of making ice.

Is there much snow up there?

And will you be testing the ice on Cooch before the weekend?

[poickster]

Crazy cold here in Orillia. Watching the lake freeze over coffee

Live updates from you until the weekend  
Today is the day for ice production.  Yiiiipppppeeeee


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[VanSlyke]

Crazy cold here in Orillia. Watching the lake freeze over coffee

If you need a couple guys to walk out with and help ya do the first test on cooch when you do it let me know. 

[nocod]

Yes thanks for the updates everyone. Anybody know how the ice is at VB? Was thinking about taking a walk Sunday for some early season perch with spud in hand.

be care full  .

[John Whyte]

Today has me excited in terms of making ice.

Is there much snow up there?

And will you be testing the ice on Cooch before the weekend?

It's still a little early for testing. If there is no more snow and another freezing night I might walk out and do a preliminary test

[poundthem]

Would be a nice gift to get out for Jan 1. Cant remember when that happened for the opener

[Manvillen(Jess)]

There is an 1in of ice for 100ft on the gilford side. Decent waves on cooks, let’s hope lady simcoe stays calm for the next 48hrs and locks up the surface.

To be clear Not safe, not even close. Couple Yonge bucks from the city happen to be out walking on the ice  rod in hand, scary how uninformed some people are...

[jerpears]

They wha?

Jesus. I hope they are ok.

Actually what I really hope is they get a soaker and a scare 10 ft from shore but that they survive.

[Fishfood]

Keswick today it's trying to freeze.

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[Fishfood]

Port bolster

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[Fishfood]

And last of all vb is looking promising

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[Fishfood]

This was the crappy ice 20 ft off shore where I tested

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[Fishfood]

Vb is not safe ice .

There is no safe ice.
Still a few open spots out there and it's not frozen all the way to the point.

I was in 2ftw and it was a crummy 2 layer ice with slush under it. Give it some time

I'll be checking it better tomorrow late afternoon before dark and venturing a little further  after some more cold.
We will see what happens.

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[Sascwatch]

Thanks for the updates. Hopefully it puts on 1-2" per day for the next few days and it'll be good to start walking on. Fished local ice today (Mitchell's bay) and found 2-4" of clear ice and dirty water, got off before the heavy snow started.

[fishfinder99]

bbp

[gino]

willow beach

[Fishfood]

Gino thanks for the update .. it's looking  great for Dec 13th . It's only going to get better from here . I may try out willow this year it has been  8 to 10 years since  I fished there.
The last time there was the absolute worst day on the ice by far for me . White outs without a gps or compass ended up walking from the willow huts to the jp huts thinking  I was going to shore in a foot of snow lol. That's the day I met peal and I thought he was crazy one going the wrong direction while he looked at his compass with his head down looking at his compass  lol. I should of left with the smart guy lol. Lessons definitely learned that day and many many unforgettable kms.

Play safe everyone. 

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[Fishfood]

Port bolster to Beaverton froze as far as the eyes can see. They are a little hazy but I can still see quite far lol. More pics to follow.  This looking atThor from Beaverton looks right across but I could be wrong. Oh ya

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[Evanxrs]

The Radar looks nice for Cooch but Simcoe has a long way to go.
Little warmer temps for Monday but night time lows are still cold.

[Evanxrs]

Weather forecast for Hawkestone.

[Sportsman]

Perfect thread with lots of great contributions   

[AKA_Retie]

Thank you for the pics and updates on the east side Fishfood...

I really hope that pack ice freezes and stays as it is cause last cpl years it's been a tad deep and dangerous, especially when there's an inch of snow on it

cheers

[Trapper]

I just left Sutton back here to home.And the ferry is breaking ice.There is a strip open between Georgina and thorah island.Tomorrow will walk out on canal lake in front of our house.

[Manvillen(Jess)]

I don’t see much steam on cooks...

[gino]

gain a bit more off willow but not worth a pic lol
i wounder how gull lake is doing ?

[Fishfood]

I don’t see much steam on cooks...

A lot of the bay is still open sad disappointed but it's better than yesterday. 

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[BB]

I don’t see much steam on cooks...

Kemp Bay in Barrie was nothing but a big wall of steam at 8am this morning. It,s going to take another week of this cold temps to get it right. No wind too.

[John Whyte]

We are going to need some very cold nights to lock it up. I'll go and test a little tomorrow and see how its progressing.

[Sascwatch]

Thanks again for the updates everybody, we're pretty well snowed in here now (lake st clair) and walking will be rough. Almost a foot of soft powder ontop of the 3-4" of ice we had. Sure would be nice to get a few perch before Christmas.

[Fishfood]

Keswick cooks bay lots of open water a bit of ice down the very bottom end.  But only  100 yards of ice off rainers.  No pics of Keswick sorry wasn't worthy enough lol.

Next is 2 pics of port bolster one from yesterday and one from this afternoon dec14th.

Was OPEN  water yesterday

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[Fishfood]

Now here is vb Dec 14th 2017 first guy fishing yea fishing lol. Not very far off shore I wouldn't get your hopes up to fast.

JUST beyond that guy you can see the transition on the ice . That is THIN ICE ...not sure how thick it is there is probably a reason for why he stopped there . The cops were there when I turned on  the road I knew someone was out there they pulled out just before I got there. I'm sure they will be back there trying to stop people never had time to check the ice today. So I can't tell you ice thickness. 

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[Fishfood]

I'm think I g there is a pop up behind the tree right edge of the pic. I never saw it when I drove by . But all my attention was on  the one guy.

Play safe

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[BB]

Look out from Hooters here

Get the boat, get the boat

[Fishfood]

Nice pic BB

Tomorrow night might be the night for it to skim over. If not we will have to wait some more .

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