The day after St. Patty's

We will be in the mid 80's here on the south side of the sun for the next three days, and it will get to the low seventies in Wolfeboro, NH today.  Can anyone say ...............

ICE OUT!

They say that the water temperature is 39, and we all know that the ice in our adult beverages will melt at that level quicker than a cube in the oven.  In the case of the big lake (Winnepasaukee)....that's a good thing.

This is a web cam from this morning at the "Weirs", which is the northern end of the lake.  Won't be long.   Ice out will happen all at once.  The lake ice melts, fills with air holes which in turn fill with water making it heavier than water and Wooooooooooops, the whole mess sinks.  That's ice out.  It will probably go this next week.

Sinking ice pushes the warmer water up from below and the fish life follows the warmer water to the surface........That's when we want to be fishing there.

  Which of course is the purpose of this blog today.  Just commemorating the best fishing trip in history.  Same guys, same lake, same spot and about the same time for 42 years.

  Our last year of that trip was 2010.  Our first was somewhere around 1968 and one or all of us made it every year.

After a long winter (Which this past was not), the lake, in the above state, gets our piscatorial juices flowing and you just gotta be there.

There may still be some snow in the "Big woods", but the lake is ready to go.

This is one of the rainbow trout that took part in one of our over 40 seasons of chasing ice out.

And the really scary thing about that place and that trip is that we, in our little cabal, are ALL still alive. 

Now, here's your homework assignment.  If you go back over the years I have published this blog, you will find the whole story of this trip.  But ya gotta work for it.  Have fun and tight lines.