From Rick April 18 2017

I made it to BP , still lots ice to push through, big stone still over 5" thick and solid

Rick's pic April 2017

This was Monday April 17 2017 in front of Frezzells

from Rick April 2017

This was yesterday ,Edlunds hay island going into Moore bay

April 15 th update

Last 2 days have been windy,first from SE on Friday to NW today. Also had a little rain overnight,we need a good soaker,has been no precipitation past month.All snow has melted in bush,frost coming out and drying up. The lake level is a little low but has come up a little since the spring melt has started. This morning we had a piece ice the size of a football field float past. I went out after lunch to see how far I could get .Left our Dock and followed boat channel to Queer,had to slow down few times pushing through mushy candled ice. Made it to Allan's reef by following old ice road then ice became thicker so I turned East towards Railroad and stayed on south side to the red Bouy at the East end of Railroad. From here I made it to within 200 yards of Cat Island pushing through mushy ice. The ice was getting too thick to go any further ,could see the open water at Strawberry Narrows .
The ice in the Hades was just as solid,from here I headed East into Moore Bay again pushing through mush ice about 3" thick but candled. Once through the Narrows at Dwight Nicks was open water all way into Moore Bay Lodge and as Far East as you could see past the green Bouy. My guess it's open to Eagles Pass. We should get to Bare Point by Tuesday at latest.??? Solid ice South and East of our place. Have heard you can boat from town to Camp Stevens and just short of Scotty's beach. So there is not a lot of ice stopping us from getting to civilization!

Hit publish to quick !

Forgot to add that the earliest we have made BarePoint was on April 10/2012
Latest was May 19/2014
My first ice out prediction was April 25-going to be close.
And it will not allow me to attach photo ? Will try attach in comment section .

Ice update

yesterday I made it as far as Green Bouy E25, will try attach a photo. The top 2" is clear hard ice and bottom 4" is candled.
Greg says it's open water from Queer south into Elbow.
Terry says they can boat from Town to camp Stevens.
In past years when I can push through the ice to this location we have made it to Bare Point anywhere from 7-14 days.
Ice to the South of us is still pretty solid,boat just slides up on top and sits there.
It's -5 this morning and calm so that means we made another 3/8" ice overnight. What we need is a good soaker rain and some wind and this ice would disappear quickly.

We are back !

took truck off the ice Mar 24. On Mar 25 we had approximately 20 geese in the open water at the Narrows along with Golden Eye Ducks. Mar 30 was probably last quad trip to town. We have open water on our side of French Narrows Portage. Tip of Queer Island you have to go over rocks  as it's all open water. Our landing on South Side of Island is now open water. Guessing we should be able to boat to town April 25 ??