Eagle Lake Ice Out: Update #7

April 10, 2012

Tension mounts during Eagle Lake Ice Out Contest “Disgruntled guest Kurt Hebeker declares “Bullshit”…Eagle Lake Ice Out continues under veil of suspicion!! Ice pack near Mitchell’s Island…….coincidence or does Keith’s island harbor a “black hole”…..sucking the ice pack into it’s ravenous maw!!! The Eagle Lake Ice Out continues at its own pace…. …regardless of the [...]

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Eagle Lake Ice Out: Update #6

April 9, 2012

Breaking News:  Eagle Lake Ice Out Imminent! (*For the folk from Wisconsin, imminent is not an illegal alien, but simply means “soon”) Will  “Winnipeg Rick” Martinson win the Eagle Lake Ice Out contest with a guess of April 9th??? The wind may decide the Eagle Lake Ice Out contest…. An Eagle Lake Ice Out historical [...]

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Eagle Lake Ice Out: Update #5 “Happy Easter”

April 8, 2012

Why is there a shot of a giant marlin in the Eagle Lake ice out contest? No reason, other than as the Electric Beaver blog master I can do what I want!  Actually this is my continued “lead up” to the coming post on our recent trip to the Baja, Mexico and the fishing that [...]

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Eagle Lake Ice Out: Update #4

April 3, 2012

Eagle Lake Ice Out Update: Reports are in on area lakes of some folk actually getting boats in the water and catching fish!  Even the South East end of Eagle (Bear Narrows) has had some open water fishing activity.  How much longer for the Vermilion Bay end of Eagle Lake?  Who picked the right date? [...]

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Overwhelmed by waiting for the ice to melt on Eagle Lake/Vermilion Bay

April 3, 2012

Suffering Mr. Lewis. Relief is in sight. VERMILION BAY WILL SOON BE FREE OF IT’S ICY GRIP…

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Eagle Lake Ice Out: Update #3

March 31, 2012

Eagle Lake Ice Out… “The Ides of March are upon us” I have had a complaint that my Eagle Lake Ice Out updates are too complex and confusing.  Therefor in an effort to make them more “Wisconsin-friendly”, I have only added a single image, and to make it an obvious “new” update, I have added [...]

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Eagle Lake Ice Out: Update #2

March 29, 2012

Eagle Lake Ice Out… So far I’ve had about 25 people submit their ice out guess.  Surprisingly, only a few of you have picked the same dates.  I’m sorry to report that those “early birds’ who picked dates in March for the ice to be gone are not going to be sporting that VBL-wear!  Drat!  [...]

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Eagle Lake Ice Out: Update

March 22, 2012

  Eagle Lake Ice Out: The perch can rest easy, for now Eagle Lake Ice Out Update:  Well, we’ve had record breaking weather and you can see the results!  Who knows what will happen from here on, but I have retired the ice fishing rod.  18 inches of ice remain quite solid to shore but [...]

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Eagle Lake Ice Out: 2012

March 19, 2012

What’s your guess for the Eagle Lake ice out?   Here’s some photos from yesterday (March 18th) showing current conditions here on Vermilion Bay…Eagle Lake ice out? Current ice conditions:  2 feet of solid ice covered by slush, water and snow.  Current weather conditions:  setting temperature records.  Eagle Lake ice out? Eagle Lake ice out…“The [...]

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Coming Soon to Eagle Lake! “Summer”

March 8, 2012

The end of winter is in sight….summer on Eagle Lake can’t be too far behind. The forecast is looking warm which has turned my thoughts to the upcoming spring melt here on Eagle Lake.  Before that happens I put together a bit of a slide show with some of the memories over this past winter…plus [...]

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