Winnisquam Open Water
The ice was locked in out front on Sunday morning when I left the area.
Same view from the web cams this morning around 8:00 AM. When I checked around 3:00 today, ice all gone from the main body of the lake, Sanbornton to Laconia. Still a chunk of ice between the sandbar and halfway up to smith point, gone tomorrow, for sure!
During my 60+ years on the lake, this was the first winter that I could not go out on the ice out front!
There were a few winters with 3-4 inches of ice along the shoreline, center still open, and we still safely fished during the derby.
When my dad taught me how to ice fish in the late 60's we chopped through 24" of ice with an ice chisel, the deeper you go the smaller the hole!
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