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Public access to Lake Winnipesaukee for ice fishing; Gilford, Laconia, Meredith, and Center Harbor all have town docks that use ice-eater propellers for protection from ice damage. What is a public access dock for boating becomes unusable for ice fishing so ice fishermen will sometimes access the lake via someone's private property that's not posted with a no trespassing sign.

For example the Cattle Landing town dock and parking lot, way down the end of Meredith Neck, has a 60" opening in its blue fence where ice fishermen used to slide their bob house down the smooth grassy embankment onto the lake ice. Maybe ten years ago, the old concrete and timber dock was replaced with a floating concrete dock and ever since, it's had two ice-eaters that keep the ice away in a large semi-circle around the town dock and make it unusable for ice fishermen to access the lake ice, there, either by foot, by atv, snowmobile or with a bob house, passing through the 60" wide opening.

So, some ice fishermen will use nearby private property that isn't posted by foot to walk onto the frozen lake, and it all seems to work out okay, or something?

Out of the Laconia town docks at Weirs Beach, Meredith town docks, Love Joy Sands at Shep Brown's, Leavitt Beach in Meredith, and Center Harbor town docks, only Leavitt Beach has good winter access for ice fishermen with atv's, snowmobiles, and bob houses because it does not have a dock there for summer use, so it has no ice-eaters in the winter. What's there in the summer is a swim area rope line but no dock so there's no need for an ice-eater.