Mika Lappalainen | Friday, 8 November 2024
Satu left me for unknown period at home. She has some her business during weekend she will be back on Sunday or Monday, something like that. She is absolutely brave or insane, she left me to take care hens, dogs and reindeer, last comment was that I should eat also something now and then
Anyway we have been super busy with reindeer work this week, we have start 7.30 from home and I have been back around 20.00. We have been gathering reindeers, having round ups and slaughter. Today was farm day and I started to finish new fence.
Week was cold until Wednesday when it turned plus celsius. We have pretty good ice on lakes.. They say that 5 cm (2 inch) is good to go and for fisherman 2 cm (1 inch). Official is that You should have 10 cm(4 inch) to walk on ice, 15cm(6 inch) is totally safe.
The best ice fishing period is here now, when first ice comes and it is barely strong enough to go. Whitefish are spawing or just finishing that, and you can find good ones close to shore in shallow water. And that's one reason why you can take risk, water is often less than 1 meter more like 50 cm where you find fish now.
So if you go thru, your nuts will be dry more or less anyway. I hope that reindeer work slow just the little bit after this weekend and I could go to our lake. It has some dangerous spots but also really good ones in this time of the winter.
Difficult to say if it bravery or insanity to go fishing on ice which barely hold, anyway it is worth to try.
Have a nice weekend
Mika