After a week of above average temperatures that also led to storm force winds and water level fluctuations in the days following Christmas, Lake Erie’s ice cover that was not fishable yet was set back to near zero.
After temperatures reached 60 degrees on Dec. 27, they plunged into the 20s in the days that followed and allowed ice to begin re-forming once the wind calmed.
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