attention people of the great lakes regions...?

no none of the inland lakes are thawed yet i just went out ice fishing 2 weeks ago and found 2 feet of ice on the lakes

I agree, Michigan used to have a booming economy. Now we lag behind Mississippi! California may be a better off blue sate but look, they have more millionaires per capita. In general where you increase taxes, you slow the economy. Lower taxes on the other hand increase discretionary spending, which allows small businesses to large corporations to expand. With expansion comes jobs. More people working to pay taxes. And we don't have big government on our backs, so we have more disposable income to invest for old age or to buy that plasma TV that will in turn give someone a job! Maryland is having big deficit problems too! Don't let that guy who posted how grand Maryland is fool you. I know the stats!

I live in Central Illinois, and it is starting to warm up. It been way too long, im starting to have withdrawals. It has been another weird winter here, 60 one day and 20 the next. It has been about 35-45 every day for the past week or so, so hopefully in about a month it will be warm enough to catch some bass.

Up here in Ontario we still got 3 foot of snow before we can check the ice. Might be already thawed but we can't tell yet.

I went ice fishing today and theres 2-3 feet of ice.We caught 27 perch altogether and I caught 10.I would say a month.

The lakes are still pretty solid yet in WI. Gonna be a couple weeks yet. Ive got that itch too...believe me!

It is getting warmer and warmer, but with the weather I couldn't begin to tell you. My prediction is in about two weeks.

the Ice seems to be breaking up here in albany ny,

in cleveland were frozen, just had another blizzard too. spring wont come fast enough