Ice dance starting...

[Jigman13]

That is all...

[bulletbob]

No ice here and I'm almost 3 hours north of sussex county... Even tiny half acre farm ponds have no ice or just a tiny skim around the edges... The big lakes?.. none at all...

[Chrisper4694]

No ice here and I'm almost 3 hours north of sussex county... Even tiny half acre farm ponds have no ice or just a tiny skim around the edges... The big lakes?.. none at all...

really?? must've been too windy... we had like 75% skim ice coating on the shallow first ice small lakes.... def looking at late next week to get the first trip in NJ.... my dirty undies have been spending the nights in the freezer for voodoo purposes.

[acabtp]

i was walking on water 2 days ago up in VT, felt great, can't wait to get out down here

everything i drove by in sussex and northern morris county on the way home yesterday was locked up, hopefully it won't be too long

https://www.njfishing.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=155699&stc=1&d=1641489368

[bulletbob]

I was just out and came back.. Small farm ponds starting to freeze up, it has cooled down past 2 days, but the lakes in NY are BIG, and it might take a while.. Makes no difference to me, I don't ice fish at all.. Seen too many horrible things, and was involved in one myself at age 12 or so,,, Not my bag...

[AndyS]

Budd Lake is usually the first lake with safe ice.

[phil]

February is the new january. The long range temp forecasts look really good for making ice.

[FASTEDDIE29]

All in like the uni-bomber. If there is ice I’ll be on it. Playing with the ice gear now and doing a check of what needs a tune up. :D

[bigfishy]

Is it bad if theres skim ice and it snows on top of it???

[Billfish715]

Not to worry..........scientists from a major New Jersey institution of higher learning are working on a way to get all of you hard water anglers a chance to drill some holes on your favorite ponds much earlier in the year. It won't matter how cold or warm the nights are to get the water to firm up. They are experimenting with a substance which, when added to the water, will end any ice dancing forever. What is it you ask? They are adding little blue pills to some selected lakes and ponds to get things firmed up. It promises to get the waterways harder and thicker than by just waiting for things to happen normally.

[icebadger]

fellas it is a el nina year that means that we will see a bunch of southern warm air from the south we have colder temps for the next week the nighttime temps look good as long as we do not get to much wind we should be good to go soon however we still have to deal with ice eater misuse going on no matter how cold it gets those things make things dangerous. the jet stream has been weird lately keep your fingers crossed it does not do that up and down temp thing.

[fishingbuddies]

Let's Go Ice Dance!

[NJSquatch]

Found 2.5-3” of gray ice yesterday on area waters. Hopefully the rain melts the snow. It will be good to go by Wednesday :D

[nsell]

Is it true you cannot get into the State Park at Lake Hopatcong untill 8:00 am? I was informed of this by rangers late this fall. If correct this will have an effect on the fishing.

[acabtp]

Is it true you cannot get into the State Park at Lake Hopatcong untill 8:00 am? I was informed of this by rangers late this fall. If correct this will have an effect on the fishing.
Yes. The state park hours are always terrible for fishermen.

[NJSquatch]

Is it true you cannot get into the State Park at Lake Hopatcong untill 8:00 am? I was informed of this by rangers late this fall. If correct this will have an effect on the fishing.

Yes it is terrible 8am to sunset.

[NJSquatch]

Keep on dancing guys!

https://i.postimg.cc/Kcdm2xZR/forecast.jpg

[Cape Cod]

Update? Tomorrow morning could be safe somewhere?

[Chrisper4694]

Update? Tomorrow morning could be safe somewhere?

been ice fishing since last saturday on shallow places, so yes there is and has been fishable ice... depends on many many variables