Originally Posted By: FurFlyin
It's been 0 here several times. Seems like in winter of 00-01 we had 4 or 5 mornings that winter at or near 0 degrees. I had a thermometer on my back porch and it read 0 several mornings.

The coldest I've ever been in my life was on Lake Guntersville one morning around 90-91. It was the last time I remember the lake freezing over. I was duck hunting by myself the morning that all started. I had waded into an area and took a dove stool with me. I was sitting in the water, under a tree limb. The wind was howling. I sat there for hours and watched 1000's of Shovelers drop out of the sky into the main river channel. When I got ready to go, my cordura waders were frozen. I could barely get stood up. They were frozen stiff.


I can remember the lake freezing in the late 90's. We launched at the boat ramp on 227, past the feed mills, to go duck hunting. When we circled to go under the causeway on 227 the boat ran up on the ice and didn't stop until the foot of the motor caught. The ice was thick enough to hold a 16/48 aluminum boat with 3 guys and hunting gear. We finally were able to back it off, idled back to the ramp and went home. That same year we the ice was so thick from the launch on 431 around Alred Marina that you couldn't get a boat in. It was frozen all the way to the river channel.

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