[Good Friday, March 29, 2024] Ice fished "my" lake, in Muskoka

At my usual launch, there are only very very think layer of ice along the shoreline, so not possible to walk onto ice

Drove about 15KM to another launch of the lake, and at least there are some ice along shoreline access, so walked onto ice and walked on the lake for over 200 meters (600 feet), and ice fished at around 31 fow, but didn't mark anything the whole time other than some smelt. (In fact I knew there are literally no fish, whitefish or laker that is, off this launch, but what could I do when I wanted to wet my line on ice?-)

And ice is at most 2 inches thick :-)

2-inch ice

And before noon when returned to launch/dock, broke the ice. Ice here is like only 1 inch thick :-)

Too bad about the fish, but like you said, nice to get out. You are a brave soul going out on the ice. Almost time to get out the kayak. Is that a Pflueger reel? That's all I use for all my fishing.

Thanks, and yes, that is a Pflueger reel, and I have many of them, large or small and for ice fishing and for open water:-)

Must have had the suit on lol
I looked over some bodies of water today and saw everything from nearly ice free to still covered.

I usually like to read your posts, but today just plain stupid!