>>2503785Some years it does. We get some ice in the back of embayment's and marinas during some years but it's very rare to see it stretch any distance into the main lake.
Last year people apparently ice fished in grenadier pond, high park - and it was the subject of gossip because BlogTO posted something negative about the fisher people (BlogTO has formed a pattern of negative publicity around fishers in grenadier and this past summer they published some nonsense about a woman being followed by two young anglers who were annoyed that she had dumped their bucket of fish back into the pond - I intervened because I was familiar with all parties involved and I reminded people that lady has been patrolling the pond and harassing people for years so she should have known better and definitely did it to cause trouble and try to create fake media attention/fake activism)
tonight, the temperature just dropped like crazy and there is ice all over the place I almost fell off my bike. we'll see what happens when the sun comes up but it looks like the cold part of winter has finally hit and we'll get some consistent sub zero temperatures now. Some years it'll go below zero and stay below zero for weeks at a time, but some years we just don't get that much or the cold spells are interrupted by significant warm ups. The open water of the lake is just too wavy for ice to form at zero it has to be below 5 consistently throughout the day and below 10 at night before ice can even spread through the calm waters of the marina.
I'll keep fishing from the bank even as the ice shelf starts to cover the marina especially if there is a warm up I'll put some conditioner on my line and on the rod guides so that ice doesn't form. I'll still catch heavy fish hanging around the ice and that's a good time to get a trophy fish because they're so fat but also low energy.
