was out fishing today and had to jump to the ice as it was a couple of feet from shore.hope your ice out prediction is right on steve,kinda leaning towards the 10-12,then we might get a couple of days in the boat.fishing was great today,but pretty scary drilling them holes,the auger went through pretty quick,and by the end as we left the holes had gotten bigger.we had roughly 8" but it looks real puky at the bottom of the ice.had some rain today which turned the top to crap in a hurry,definitly not going back.