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micdor
Member
Post Number: 1
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 20, 2006 - 7:53 pm: | 
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We are planning a trip to Lake Temagami soon and were wondering how the slush was on the lake. |
irishfield
Member
Post Number: 64
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Monday, February 20, 2006 - 10:14 pm: |
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Take a good sled, jac-all and shovel is all the advise I keep getting. Can't drive on it with a vehicle. I'm told 14" of ice with two feet of snow on top and to not even consider trying an ATV to get to my cottage only 4 islands out from town. They could be being over cautious, but that's what I'm being told as of Friday past |
stephantheman
Member
Post Number: 10
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 8:36 am: |
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micdor,
not much slush but tons of snow! There could be some slush under that thick blanket of snow but we never broke through on the snow machine. |
ojig
Member
Post Number: 9
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 9:55 am: |
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If you are sledding, be sure to stick to a hard pack trail or keep some speed up. It is not slushy ALL over, but it is out there, and if you get into it you may have a long walk if you cant get out. There were places where it was 18 inches deep plus another 10 or so of snow on top of that. Just a word of caution thats all. |
kevin
Member
Post Number: 7
Registered: 04-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 11:38 am: |
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How's the going on the lakes these days, after the meltdown ? Anyone catching anything? |
irishfield
Member
Post Number: 70
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 18, 2006 - 10:55 pm: |
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I was on the lake Sun/Mon/Tue/Wed 15th. Town dock to the flasher marker when coming off the main lake was 6 inches of water/slush on top of hardened slush when I went out Sunday (it was 8C and sunny after all). After the high winds and -10 C Tuesday night it was all frozen on Wednesday am. Nothing you could drive a vehicle on that's for sure...but should be easy going on a sled. If you are drilling to fish it's about 32" in total. About 1/2 and 1/2 frozen slush and good ice below. Lakers closed on Temagami on Wednesday 15th, but Pickeral is open 'till the 14 of April (and for the last time by the look of the new 2007 reg proposal). All lakes from South of Nippissing to New Liskard (the new Zone 11)will apparently close for fishing come March 15th and there will be no more Jan 1 to Sept 30th Lake Trout anywhere but "put and take" lakes stocked in the current year. |
ed
Moderator
Post Number: 280
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 19, 2006 - 8:41 am: |
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Irishfield:
Those proposed regulations would imply that the MNR must feel there is too much pressure on the fish stocks for sustainability. Or is there another reason for the change?
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irishfield
Member
Post Number: 71
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 19, 2006 - 11:51 pm: |
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I think it has a little more to do with "political" pressure on the MNR by cottage associations that don't want anyone on "their" lakes while they are not there in the winter...but I don't want to get into that here. There is no biological proof that all the area lakes need to be closed to ice fishing for other than the Feb 15 to Mar 15 time slot. The pressure seasons, based on area fishing licence sales, are July and August..not January/April/May. |
ed
Moderator
Post Number: 282
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 6:48 pm: |
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Thanks, I was wondering what was really going on.....But licenses can be purchased for one to three years, so it might be difficult to draw that conclusion based on local license sales. |
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