12/12 We are just days away from the start of the ice fishing season here in Tioga County. The smaller lakes are mostly capped right now and with the current forecast, we should have fishable ice by the weekend. Right now, nothing is fishable and we have a little bit of snow on top. Temps in the high 30's today helped melt some of the snow down. This should create a thin layer of white ice over top of the good ice by the weekend.