| We bring ourselves in, the koi stay outside in the mud.
Actually, what we do each winter is to wrap the pole barn that is our fish house up in plastic so as to keep the wind off. We have an old wood stove in there to sit by and warm chilled hands that have been in the cold water.
Water temps may go as low as 40 degrees F, but seldom for long. Usually the temp hovers around 50 or so all winter.
IN about the last twenty or so years we've found "wild ice" (ice out of doors and not in a gin and tonic) a few times, but it is rare.
About every ten to fifteen years or so we get a killer freeze that kills fish like you would not beleive. In 1983, after Hurricane Alicia hit that summer it got down to 11 degrees here. Most of the fish around here died, especially things like shad, sunfish, and bass in freshwater, almost all the fish in the bays and along the beachfront died.
We had two hurricanes this year, both bigger than Alicia, I'm thinking we might see another one of those killer freezes this winter.
When it gets so cold here they shut down all the power plants as they are not designed to operate in such extreme cold, leaving us folks living here quite literally "out in the cold."
Then when the thaw comes, also comes a big flood from all the broken plumbing.
Hopefully not this winter.
Brett
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