New to Ice fishing.

[Wally44]

I have a sleeper on Mille lacs out of the south east side we were up last weekend and after we drilled the hole i noticed there was alot of water on top of the ice. why is this and is it safe to stay there when this happens? 
Thanks,
Wally

[DDSBYDAY]

   When there is a lot of weight on the ice it can sag and water can come up from holes drilled for ice fishing.  The temps were pretty warm last weekend so there could also be snow melt water on the ice.  It is safe as long as your ice thickness is ok.  There are some consequences you need to be carefull of.  Wet ice with no snow is extremely slippery.  The other thing is if your house is not blocked up out of the surface water you can flood and freeze in.   One other thing that can happen is wind can swirl the standing water on  very warm sunny days and sink an ice house pretty fast.

[Wally44]

Got ya it looked very thick over 27 inches, Still when i saw that (this being my first year) and being from florida have nerver gotten the ice fishing bug till this year and man i love it just still very nervous when i saw that.
thanks for the quick responce.

happy fishing