Ice Out - Open Water

Lake opened up Yesterday, 04/09/2014
Deep Lake, Lake Villa, ILL
Piers & Lifts going in Saturday

Been a Really Long Winter

No worries Brett, Quinner has a really cool pair of Sea Green waders he uses for pier installations. Pairs nicely with his curls.

You beat us- still a few days to go here but we're getting close. Good work on not wasting any time with docks... It's tough recruiting help when it's still this cold.

My son took his first run last weekend with some buddies - no wet suit - brrr. Water is about 59. Boat will go in this weekend or next. I've been pretty busy and haven't had a chance to get out in a while...besides the cold, crappy winter, even here in the sunny south.

Hopefully we'll have some sunny and warm between now and White Lake. Water warms up pretty quickly. Ours was about 49 not too many week ago.

Here ya Go Kap,

Kap and Maddie Quinn at SJRR, Adam creeping behind:





Early winter:



Dead of Winter:



Starting to thaw:



Shoreline Starting to Open:



Yesterday:

Adam definitely looks like he's up to no good.

As of 4/5, winter was still very much here in NH!



"Fish hunting"

phatsat67 wrote: No worries Brett, Quinner has a really cool pair of Sea Green waders he uses for pier installations. Pairs nicely with his curls.

I do understand he had to buy a larger size this year!

The ice here in NY is pretty much out. There might still be some icebergs floating around on the shallower north end. There has been a lot of damage to permanent docks on the lake this year and there will be a lot of debris floating for a while.

74Wind, your bro needs to ditch the skis and get the pontoons back on his plane.

David

put my boat on the lift tuesday...there was still a good bit of ice out there, but all gone now. i'll be getting in the water this weekend. temp was a bit erratic, i think due to the extremely cold (probably 35 degree) water...it would get to around 200, then drop to ~130...then repeat. usually runs a consistent 160, but i'm guessing the t-stat couldn't keep up. ran perfect though. long winter for sure...

Cold water shouldn't cause you to hit 200. Should still hold 160 then drop when the thermostat opens, then back to 160. If you're only idling it'll take a while to even get to 160.

Dock goes in today. Pontoon tomorrow. Hopefully BFN next weekend.

This is what he went through. This ice will be gone after today.   

Waterdog wrote: MI-nick wrote:    temp was a bit erratic, i think due to the extremely cold (probably 35 degree) water...it would get to around 200, then drop to ~130...then repeat. usually runs a consistent 160, but i'm guessing the t-stat couldn't keep up. ran perfect though. long winter for sure... Water that cold + speed the intake on the bottom of the hull may have iced up.

I really don't feel the intake would ice up. He was still running in above freezing water. I would say the cold water would shut the T stat and then when warmed up it would open again. Note Nick did say: " it would get to around 200, then drop to ~130...then repeat."

Ice is out locally as of today. 45 minutes north at the lake it may be another week. At the rate I am going it will be Memorial Day or later before I get set up. Been working 7 days/week for months but have a rare Spring day off tomorrow due to power company upgrading poles near the shop.

I'm trying to decide on spring yardwork....or hooking up the trailer and driving 4 hours north to take a rare 65 degree snowmobile ride. Decisions...decisions. Still 3-4 feet of snow up there. I hate Spring. I wish we could have 8 months of Summer and four months of Winter!   

Mike