All you can see are pillows of steam rising off the surface of Lake Superior.
January 6th, 2014 satellite image
Ice! Ice! Ice!
It’s so cold…
A good year for Great Lakes Ice
This should be a great year for ice on the Great Lakes. I am particularly looking forward to what happens with the West end of Lake Superior. It’s not often we get ice to fish on, but when we do – the fishing can be phenomenal. Being that we have had so much sub-zero temperatures already this year, we are seeing ice much earlier than usual. It typically takes all winter for surface water on the big lake to cool down to the low 30’s F when it finally starts getting some ice forming in February or March. This year it already started happening in December, and temperatures are not looking up! With many nights dipping below -20F and not even breaking 0 during the daytime, I think we are going to see some good ice on the lake yet this year, along with some good trout fishing!
Lake Superior Ice on January 2, 2014
Here is a nice rainbow from 2013.
Looking forward to more of this!
Okay I lied, just one more
This is the last one of the season. For real this time. I was able to help my dad out today and filled his tag as well. This is great because now it means we get to make a lot of different stuff with venison this year.
End of Season
Short days and cold weather has kept me from sitting very long in my treestand this late in the season. I still had one tag to fill and with only a few days left, I was going to fill it on the next deer that gave me the opportunity. Today was the warmest it has been in a long time so I took advantage of the nice weather and was in my treestand by 1:00pm. This deer showed up almost right away, making its way through the deep snow to within 5 yards of my stand when I was trying to line up a shot through all of the twigs and branches. I made a subtle noise to stop it long enough I could manage to slip an arrow through. A couple of jumps and off it continued walking down the trench in the snow as if nothing had happened.
The drag out was long and difficult through waste-deep snow and all up-hill. I guess I earned this last one.
Last one
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