More Ice

When I got home from Florida, my dock and boat lift looked like this.  A little twisted, but repairable.

Then the ice started moving, and pushed the boat lift towards shore.  Still maybe able to salvage some of it.

Now that the wind has pushed the ice further up on my shore, there's not much to save.

I must live right in the "funnel-gunnel".  None of my neighbors have any ice on their shore.  I keep my sunfish and small fishing boat on jet ski lifts.   I pulled them out of the water, and up on the shore so nothing would happen to them over the winter.  The ice came up the shore, and broke the legs off both of them.

Ice Yak

Saw these two hard core kayakers out on the lake yesterday. As you can see, the ice isn't off the lake yet. Turns out that the fellow in the yellow Hobie Out back is my fellow Hobie fishing team member Nathan. They had to break the ice to get around my boat dock.

Back home again

Back in Indiana after a couple of months in the sunshine.  Really missed this Indiana weather.  It was 60 degrees here yesterday.  Today we had thunderstorms with lots of rain, strong winds, then about 2" of sNOw, and tonight the temperature drops to single digits.  And the lakes are still frozen solid.

But I really enjoyed Florida.

I caught several nice redfish. Here's the two largest.

 

Even my pal Dawg caught a redfish

I had a pirate in my little boat, but he didn't have much luck with the redfish.

Here's a short video showing a redfish being revived and released.

The ice is off the White River, and my new Hobie kayak is on the way, so I hope to be posting more smallmouth bass photos soon.