Warm Weather Brings Soft Ice
Well the investment in a 22 is paying off, two red squirrels in one day. And they won’t be going to waste. The fox is back and most likely will be having her babies soon.
Starting to see the lakes with open water on the way to work in Sugar Camp, and our lake on Lower Buckatabon is losing ice everyday. My son went out there on Wednesday and drill some holes, were down to 5 inches. The ice is very soft and squishy, spongy. We hear so often of vehicles of ice fisherman going through the ice as the weather warms up and the ice cover deteriorates to such, that the thickness gets to the point that UTV’s disappear below the ice very fast. This happened this week to two fishermen and 2 UTV’s on the north shore of Lac Vieux Desert in Land O Lakes. The vehicles went down in 8 foot of water and Bull Dog Off Road Recovery services were called to pull them out. Two more fishermen were on the Willow Flowage and they went through, unable to get out of the water, a delivery driver heard the yells for help and called in for rescue. If this warm weather continues like the forecast is looking like with temps in the lower 60’s on Tuesday, we should see water real soon on Lower Buckatabon.
Friday night pizza at Bauer’s Dam and the John didn’t disappoint. Wendy went down to the waters edge of the lake to get some awesome sunset pictures, something about late winter sunsets knowing there never the same and always moving/dropping further north or to the right. After dinner we had a spontaneous get together at our bar with locals and I actually teamed up for a game of pool and won, look out Gary I’m ready for you. And the bar games/shots were going strong. Saturday was a slow go recovery day.
I’m looking forward to making my first Conover Sno-Buddies Membership meeting on Tuesday for the first time at Bauer’s Dam. 5:30 social hour/6:30 dinner. The Miller families will be serving All-You-Can-Eat soup, salad, pizza and dessert for a cost of $12. (No RSVP needed) Meeting and election to follow dinner. Groomer Appreciation night plus BIG CA$H RAFFLE winners will be drawn! New members are always welcome. Should be a fun social get together with all the locals.
Till next time...RWM
