We are almost to the middle of January and the cold air that greeted us at the beginning of the year has come and gone. We have been in a very mild pattern since the first week of January. There is some ice on the bay of Green Bay and the inner harbors. We are optimistic and hopeful we will be starting the last week of January with an anticipated colder temperatures. This is the latest aerial shot of the bay as of 1-10-23.
thanks captain jj
Merry Christmas! Like most of the country we have experienced a major Arctic blast of cold air. This intrusion of cold air has made some ice in the far southern bay of Green Bay and some of the inner harbors of Door County. Unfortunately when we get this big blast ofcold its accompanied by strong winds, that was the case. We had sustained winds of 40mph with gusts above 50. That greatly reduces ice formation. We will hopefully be out in the later half of January. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
We have had a very successful ice season this far. The ice remains at a solid 22” and the ice pack nearly covers the entire bay. We will extend our season through the 15 of March. If your looking for one last fishing trip, this will be the last opportunity for the 2022 season.
We have made the move out to our deeper spots over the past couple days. It’s been a long process to carve roads and make travel possible due to the rough ice. We have a couple more shacks to get on the ice and will begin guiding operations later this week. We are finding most areas with 12-16” with a couple isolated spots of 8. We came up with some ingenious ways to make rods this winter, was a lot of work, but we made it happen.
While I was moving shacks I let Ashley fish and she caught us a couple for dinner! Looking forward to my 12th season on the ice!
capt.JJ
We are again getting some attic air over the weekend. This past week we spend checking ice on our traditional fishing grounds, we still need some cold air for consecutive days. Judging from the conditions I feel we are a 7-10 days before we can safely get out there. This time frame can be sooner or later depending on multiple weather factors. We are in much better shape than we were last year at this time. In the meantime we have been putting the finishing touches on gear, building ice ramps and doing a little perchin’
We are inching closer and closer to the ice season. The current temps for the next 48 hours do not get above the mid single digits. The next two nights will have double digit below zero temps for the area. We will begin checking ice on some of our near shore whitefish spots and gradually check our off shore deep water spots as we progress through the week. We are about a good seven days or so before we begin our ice season. More details to come this week.
The new year is here and it is bringing some colder weather for the first half of the month. This cold weather will really accelerate ice formation on the bay, if this pattern continues we hope to be on the ice by mid to late January. Single digits temps and light winds are the right combination to make ice on the bay. We are still taking reservations for the upcoming season. We look forward to another safe and successful season.
There was a large crack that opened up on 2-4. This was a very large and unpredicted crack that we did not anticipate to open up where it did. There were high profile guides who are some of the safest on the entire bay who got caught on this. Like I said the ice broke in a spot that was not anticipated and was not even a working crack in that area. Truly and act of God. There were anglers and gear strand for about 24 hours until west winds pushed the large sheet of ice back. All of JJs Guide Service gear is fine and safe. After two days of rechecking ice from sun up to sundown we were able to get our ice houses in position for fishing operations. We resumed guiding on 2-8. The super cold conditions is making ice by the inches daily. I swear in the past 48 hours we made 4″ of ice. The bay of Green Bay is almost froze from the Fox River to Bay De Noc.
The bite has been really good, we are fishing 60-90ft of water with good catches. Our availability for the rest of the month is pretty tight.We have some week days open during the last full week of February.
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Well we are slowly increasing our ice coverage across the bay of Green Bay. We have been check many of our near shore spots as it will be the areas we will be fishing for the next 7-10 days. We have a strip of about 400 yards of some thin/punky ice that needs to get thicker. Beyond that the traditional whitefish spots have 8-10″ of ice. Its just crossing that strip of bad ice. The cold next couple days will help but prolonged cold is needed for that to come safe. We will be out there checking ice in the coming days and hope to have a couple customers out this weekend.
We are patiently waiting to get to our deep water spots. We hope to venture out to some of our near shore spots after the weekend. The ice formation has been slow with the mild temps and winds. We will hope to get out deep in the coming weeks
