Snake Island

Anyone have any updates or info for Snake Island or Willow Beach?

NOAA Coast Watch showing white so it is VERY THIN ICE covered with snow!!!
It was OPEN water couple of days ago!!
I would not even think about walking out there!!!

Walked out today .. 3" and slushy.. and I saw sled marks out there,😶...

Watch out for those winds if you're going out.

Heavy north winds Friday morning with the cold front.
Some nice cold coming minus 30 Friday night . Finally some ice over some spots I want to try.

Thanks for the update!

Sleds/ATV needs about 6" CLEAR ice to be safe. I prefer even a little more.

There are a few really cold nights coming . It would be great if someone living in this area ( Willow Beach) ....could update about the ice condition by this coming weekend.

I feel safer on a moving sled than walking.

I feel safer on a moving sled than walking.

Sill gotta stop it to fish....

I feel safer on a moving sled than walking.

Sill gotta stop it to fish....

With a sled......you don't even need ice.....you can do puddle jumping......LOL....


BUT if you want to go ice fishing and pulling your gear behind you .......you go slow and you have to STOP , and you do some walking.

You better have good ice under your feet.

few years ago guys fishing the river, sleds were being idiots and zipping past them really close. They stopped after awhile up stream a bit to have a smoke. Was the wrong thing to do. Ice fishermen had to pull them out.

If you break through walking you are close to safe ice - the way you came in. On a sled you can travel a long way on extremely thin ice without even realizing it. When it finally breaks through, you can be very far from ice that will support you. Kinda a false sense of security.

If you break through walking you are close to safe ice - the way you came in. On a sled you can travel a long way on extremely thin ice without even realizing it. When it finally breaks through, you can be very far from ice that will support you. Kinda a false sense of security.

Maybe some common sense?

Was fishing at the east end of the island on Feb 5. We drilled two holes three feet apart and one had 2 and the other had 6"of ice. On the way back to the dock we had to hug the shore line because of an ice crack that caused a flood from the island almost to the mainland.
(Pretty scary) Things are not good our there and going to get worse with the upcoming warmer temperatures