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Todd, we are going to give Dwight's 4 years of data to our fisheries class this fall and they can learn by interpreting. Hopefully, even a PB magazine article. All it took was weekly efforts by wild man Dwight! 
Subscribe to Pond Boss MagazineFrom Bob Lusk: Dr. Dave Willis passed away January 13, 2014. He continues to be a key part of our Pond Boss family...and always will be.
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Todd, we are going to give Dwight's 4 years of data to our fisheries class this fall and they can learn by interpreting. Hopefully, even a PB magazine article. All it took was weekly efforts by wild man Dwight! I don't consider it effort; just one additional chance to be pond side. Updated Weekly
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Ice thickening, water temperatures dropping, DO dropping. All normal at Bremer Pond. Updated Weekly This is a handy little chart!! thanks dwight!!
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Ice thickness dropping, water temps up a little, D.O. up a little. What does it all mean? Updated Weekly
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That is a lot of perfectly clear ice to melt in 4-5 weeks. Updated Weekly
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Dwight, when I was younger, we were ice fishing on Friday with no concerns or worries. Sunday we were waterskiing on the whole lake. Yes, we had to dodge some floating chunks, but the upper 12" of water was 65°F. I still wore my wetsuit and took off from the pier. 
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In 1987 we were fishing on Lake Okabena on February 28th. There were still a few ice cubes in one bay. That day there was also a skier out there.
We haven't had open water that early in the 26 years since.
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Dwight, it used to be a contest to see who would be the first skiier on the lake for that calender year.
For the past few years you could go out on Jan 1 and go skiing.
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From my ponds in central MN this morning. At least 4 more weeks of ice cover I think. Yuck! 
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We had ice this am on still water. It melted by noon.  Thinning ice , when clear , leads to more light penetration and higher DOs.
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My pond was about 30% open yesterday, 16°F last night closed it up again.
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I almost forgot to post the week's info. Thinking too much about spring, apparently. Updated Weekly
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With 16" of ice, there's still plenty of time to go ice fishing! My pond completely opened up last night.
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It is March. Highs in the 40s for a couple days then rain and snow with highs in the 20-30s, then snow, then cold, then......
We received 1+/-" rain last weekend. Most of that water escaped the frozen ground as run off and entered the Rock River. The hydraulic pressure from the river rising has pushed the ice on the pond up a few inches. It didn't rise enough to produce the usual annual pond "burp", at least so far.
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The pond did finally rise 8" from the the previous weekend's rain. The circulator has been placed on full time 24/7 duty until ice out. These two things combined have increased the D.O. especially the bottom. The ice is still 16" thick but only about 12" is clear ice. Updated Weekly
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Winter continues to drag on this year. Cool week coming, too
Subscribe to Pond Boss MagazineFrom Bob Lusk: Dr. Dave Willis passed away January 13, 2014. He continues to be a key part of our Pond Boss family...and always will be.
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The last inch and a half of the ice thickness readings shows how our winter is going. Cold-colder-cold-colder.....
Good morning Dave, I've checked the ships systems, and everything appears to be running normally.
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Winter continues to drag on this year. Cool week coming, too Same here. Yesterday was snow covered ice, so it was pretty slick driving. Looks like we have 4 days of cold, snow and wind up for next week. We are way below our average temps for this time of year. It should be mid to upper 40's, but we are mid to upper 20's. Today seems pretty decent tho. Cold, but sunny.
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Highs tomorrow are supposed to be in the upper 30's. Last year the high was just shy of 80. Still plenty of ice to go fishing on Bremmer Pond!
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Still holding at 16 inches of ice. It will be extremely difficult to have ice out next week or even the first week of April. Updated Weekly
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What, no weekly readings this week? Must be the flu.
Good morning Dave, I've checked the ships systems, and everything appears to be running normally.
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Screw the ice thickness measurement, going to clarity! Updated Weekly
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Is the ice getting weird?
Good morning Dave, I've checked the ships systems, and everything appears to be running normally.
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How do you measure the Ice Thickness anyway?
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From the top to the bottom of it. I figgered you could get it by pie.
Two ponds, 13 and 15 acres on the Mattaponi River.
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