Ice out on the Cape?

[salter]

How thick is the ice on the Cape trout ponds? Any idea when I can break out the fly rod?

[David Churbuck]

Wequaquet looked covered when I drove by yesterday and caught a glimpse. Hamblins in covered. Mashpee-Wakeby is mostly covered but what ice there is looks pretty cheesy.

I have no first-hand evidence of how thick the cover is. Bob Parsons might.

[psu#34]

I fished yesterday at Big Cliff Pond in Brewter Ma( NO ICE!) However it was extremlly cold, and we did not even get a bite. I'm thinking that it was too, cold the trout might be sluggish? Don't know, but there was no ice on that pond. GOOD LUCK!

[Fly Deacon]

I am also happy to report Cliff pond is open for business - I counted 19 guys there by 10:00 AM this morning (no joke) - Real slow fishing - not many fish pulled out for the number of guys there - I managed 3 rainbows during 6 hours of fishing - one guy using a spoon landed 2 nice salmon.

little cliff had some open water - and the ponds you can see along the RT 6 drive all had huge patches of open water. I think this will be the week that most of the cape ponds really start to unlock.

I thought cabin fever was going put my in the grave - get out there if you can.

[Bob Parsons]

Maspee-Wakeby has some open water. As Dave says Wequaquet is iced over. Monday I'll do a thickness test and check Peter's pond as well.

[bdowning]

Seems like we all were in the same area today.

My report:

Big Cliff: Open

Little Cliff: about 80 % ice covered

Flax Pond: 100 % ice covered

Herring Pond (Eastham): Open, cept for some shell ice here and there

Hoxie Pond (Sandwich): 100 % ice covered

None of the ponds that had ice on the outer cape appeared safe to me.

I was skunked as well, although I definitely had some light hits on flies and lures. Need a warmup. The power baiters were getting about 1 fish every two hours :rolleyes: .

As for herring, nothing spotted in any of the Cape runs, including Middleboro on the way back.

Water temp in Herring Pond was about 38 degrees in early afternoon.

-bd

[Keepah]

Peter's still has ice and so does wequacket although neither of them should have too much by the weekend. Was at both of them tis morning to check.

[Bob Parsons]

I measured ice thickness at several ponds at close to 8". The top 4 is pretty soft. Peter's pond I did not go on. Ice by the ramp had receeded off close to 6'. Off on the left side there was quite a bit of open water. Knowing how it drops off there is actually a big enough open water section that you could fish it with a rod.