01-27-2007, 01:05 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Yeah, those bubblers can be hazardous. Many of the more sensible "regulars" on the lake wear PFDs when they trudge off across trackless ice. There can be very thin ice, covered by snow, and you would never know it until you were taking a cold bath. It has happened a lot over the years on Bear Lake.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If you see or suspect a bubbler, it is wise to give it as wide a berth as you can. On some of them, with minimal upward flows, the ice thickens quickly as you get away from the center. Others push up a greater volume of warming water and it spreads out over a wider area on the surface.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Glad you like the snow flowers. The esoteric nature lover in me has always enjoyed looking at them...and wasting a little fishing time in taking some pictures of them. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I am attaching another pic of a couple of perch I posed on ice flowers over 25 years ago. The novelty and the beauty have still not worn off.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If you see or suspect a bubbler, it is wise to give it as wide a berth as you can. On some of them, with minimal upward flows, the ice thickens quickly as you get away from the center. Others push up a greater volume of warming water and it spreads out over a wider area on the surface.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Glad you like the snow flowers. The esoteric nature lover in me has always enjoyed looking at them...and wasting a little fishing time in taking some pictures of them. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I am attaching another pic of a couple of perch I posed on ice flowers over 25 years ago. The novelty and the beauty have still not worn off.[/#0000ff]
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