2016 "Safe Ice" reporting please.....

[JHbowhunter]

It's finally been cold enough, where I start thinking about getting the tip-ups and auger out... I like a good 5-6" of preferably black ice before I set foot though... I am sure I could find some smaller bodies of water this weekend that might fit that bill, but lets use this post to start reporting "safe ice" throughout the state...

 

 

Anybody out yet or see or hear of anything?

[rgw]

great idea

[Psehunter]

I'm going to give it till next weekend and go out then to start checking the ice in the Sussex area

[Bucksnbows]

I know a buddy that has been out several times on a smaller, secluded pond that is in either Sussex or upper Warren.  I saw some maniacs on Budd Lake the other weekend near the beach, but that was not safe in my opinion.  

[buckfever1974]

It's finally been cold enough, where I start thinking about getting the tip-ups and auger out... I like a good 5-6" of preferably black ice before I set foot though... I am sure I could find some smaller bodies of water this weekend that might fit that bill, but lets use this post to start reporting "safe ice" throughout the state...

 

 

Anybody out yet or see or hear of anything?

BTW.  Same question on the other site has turned into back and forth.  My opinion, naming large lakes as frozen is one thing as Bucksnbows did is one thing and in the same light, discssuing smaller spots without names is just as acceptable IMO.  Like sayin I went to Flatbrook for pheasant and knocked dead yesterday or did well in the no-kill stretch on a certain fly pattern.  Crazy stuff.

[JHbowhunter]

I know - I as observing how the same post on that other site, turns into a sh#t-show so quickly... I wasn't asking for GPS coordinates, just trying to get a sense for ice thickness around the region...

[Bucksnbows]

Don't bother with that other site.  It is nothing more than a hot mess these days.  I admit to still going on once in a while, but fewer and fewer and it is obvious that their post counts are way down compared to what it once was.

[Bucksnbows]

I just went "over there" and had a laugh at their expense.  In today's internet age in the most densely populated state in the nation with Google Earth and Bing Maps drilling down so that you can see every pebble in a stream or lake bottom, there are NO secrets left.  

[Nomad]

This is NJ, if I tell you the ice is "safe" and you fall through, I will be sued. No thanks!

[Bucksnbows]

This is NJ, if I tell you the ice is "safe" and you fall through, I will be sued. No thanks!

Just say, "I saw people ice fishing on Lake X"

 

 

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[Lonewolf76]

Im driving about 2 hours north tomorrow night. The ice was thicker in North Jersey last Saturday, i drilled a hole first thing this morning through only an inch while last Satuday it was 2.5. Either way we will be fishing next week, order your bait, respool, charge the batteries and get ready! I cant wait!!

[Nomad]

I saw people out on the river near the Delaware Water Gap, but they were in boats.  And... I saw crazy people   out there last year on the ice! lol

[HighEndHooker]

The crazy guys that you saw on the Delaware last year were probably the same ones you saw on budd lake the other day lol

[buckfever1974]

Good cat fishing on Deleware river through the ice is what I heard once its thick enough. Not this year though.