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Ice on Lake Athens
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01/03/18 02:41 PM
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Brad R
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We begin a warming trend today but the sustained sub-32 weather down here on Lake Athens created a thin layer of ice this AM. Having no wind to disturb the surface always helps. It'll be gone in an hour or two, I suspect. See below. Brad
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Re: Ice on Lake Athens
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01/03/18 02:52 PM
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Fish2222
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Brad....is that North end, middle or south?
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Re: Ice on Lake Athens
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01/03/18 03:39 PM
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Fish2222,
Up on the very NW corner of the lake not far below Athens Fish & Game Lake. Shallow water, say 4 or 5' out in the creek channel running through the center of the cove. The photo shows water about 3 or so feet deep. It is unfrozen at deeper points.
I'd imagine any other areas would be limited to shallow water back in coves.
Brad
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Re: Ice on Lake Athens
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01/03/18 03:44 PM
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LakeForkGroupie
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That's a rare sight. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Ice on Lake Athens
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01/03/18 06:23 PM
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DBFishing83
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soooo, how's the fishing under that ice. did ya punch a hole in it ?
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Re: Ice on Lake Athens
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01/03/18 06:42 PM
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Brad R
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flukeman83, It is still out there at 12:35 PM, not yet melted away. I thought it'd be gone by now! Nope, no poking holes yet . . . but I may run down with a topwater frog, give it a go! Ha! Brad P.S. This would have been an almost annual event in the mid to late 60s when I was a teenager. Small stock ponds froze over most years. We'd walk across them, play on them, break the ice up. Then, in the years 71,72,73,74 I was a discus thrower in college and the springs were usually so cold that I rarely took my sweats off until May. By the mid to late 1970s, a highly regarded magazine had a cover with the caption: "The Coming Ice Age." Some of the same scientists who are predicting global warming now? They once thought things were going to happen in the other direction. br Cold temps
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Re: Ice on Lake Athens
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01/04/18 12:09 AM
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Neches
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I watched a couple ice skating at the power line on the north end Palestine, we walked way out there, it was froze all the way to the river channel. I think that was in 1983
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