I sold all my ice fishing gear two years ago. It was getting so that we had ice I considered safe only about two months to 10 weeks or so, and that was with it being sketchy at both ends. I didn't like to go out if it was less than four inches because of the very real chance of thin areas near springs and such.
Some of the highest lakes are already fishable here, but none of the lower ones are. Normally, they've got at least a skim by now, but we're under what seems like a perpetual Indian summer this year. It's 42° at 8 a.m. today, and will hit 55°. I have a golf tee time in an hour. Won't even need a jacket. And it'll be like this at least another week.
