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[font "Comic Sans MS"][red]HEADING TO THE BERRY ON SATURDAY ANYONE ELSE GOING? AFTER ALL THE REPORTS OF ICE CONDITIONS KIND OF WORRIED ABOUT HEADING TO THE RENEGADE BAY AREA.. WE WILL BE ON 2 SLEDS AND 1 WHEELER. I WOULD LIKE TO MEET SOME OF THE GUYS WHO POST ON THIS WONDERFUL SITE. IF ANYONE COULD GIVE SOME GOOD ADVICE ON ICE CONDITIONS THAT WOULD BE NICE AND HELPFUL.. THANKS[/red][/font]
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As of yesterday there were really no major problems with the ice or with slush. Just use caution around the pressure ridges, which there are a lot of this year. With the storms that are allegedly coming in, you'll want to be careful with wheelers, as they can get stuck out there easily in deep snow. Slush will also be a problem if a lot of snow gets onto the ice and weighs it down, but once again, I don't think it will be a big problem. Yesterday the ice was a good 10" of clear ice. Good luck, and I hope you guys put the hurt on them.
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I will most likely be headig up again this saterday too. I was up there on wednesday from mud creek to ccwest and had no problems with 7-8 inches but that bay freezes up sooner than by the main marina. IFG said there is some iffy areas headed to renagade.
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#ff0000][size 3]WITH MOST OF THE REPORTS I HAVE READ IT MIGHT BE BETTER TO HEAD OUT OF MUDCREEK THIS TRIP AND DO A LITTLE LOOKING AROUND.. 3 YEARS AGO I PUT MY WHEELER IN A PRESSURE CRACK AT THE BERRY.. SO I HAVE 8 LIVES LEFT. I WILL BE IN A BLUE DODGE WITH A WHEELER ON A TRAILER. STOP AND SAY HI..[/size][/#ff0000][/font]
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Two years ago on the SC side I found a warm spring the hard way and almost lost my wheeler. We broke all the way through. Lucky for me the big box sled that I made held the back end of the wheeler up and we were able to pull it out.
I cant say the fishing has been as hot on that north end, but I do like having solid safe ice under me.
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I've promised to drag my powerbaiting inlaws to the berry this weekend. I'll probably take my wheeler, but one wheeler and 5 people is a little much so we will probably stick around close enough to walk. I've got a grey dodge with a red honda rincon wheeler. I'll say hi if I see you, I think mud creek or CCE is where we'll be. Good luck.
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Watch the pressure ridges, we helped pull one 4 wheeler out of the slush. It was in to the handle bars.
We went over to Haws point. the slush around the pressure ridge there made us nervous, so we fished near Haws point. Between the two of us, we caught about 20, with 5 of them 20"ers.
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Pressure crack? What is it? What does it look like, a bit crack in the ice? Pressure of the ice expaning making a crack?
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When ice shifts, from expansion, wind or whatever, because it is rigid something must give. What happens is that the ice will crack at one point, which relives the pressure. At this point the ice will be broken from the surface to the bottom of the ice. Sometimes one side of the ice will be stacked on top of the ice next to it. Sometimes the ice will break up in many small pieces where it cracks. Many times water will come to the surface where the crack is. I have seen cracks that went for miles on both Strawberry and Bear Lake. Often the pressure cracks (also called pressure ridges) are easy to spot and to one degree or another avoid; however, snow can hide the cracks under certain circumstances. Essentially all ice-covered lakes have numerous pressure cracks during the season, that have refrozen after cracking, and they are just not visible because of the snow. I watched two guys fall through a pressure crack at Bear Lake a couple years ago. One of them actually fell through twice (he is a slow learner). We stepped over the same pressure ridge without difficulty.
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What is a pressure crack and where are they on the lake?
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