Just over a month out...

Will we have open water for March 1st?

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troutpocket said:
@skyriver that second photo looks to have been taken on 2/28 ;)

Or did you photoshop out the floatilla that descends when there’s no other options?
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Haha! If you zoom in you can see a couple brave souls still out there.
Most of the gang heads in around 3 or so. Fishing definitely slows sometime between 3 and 4. And usually ends abruptly just after 4.
 
I’ve been out there a couple times when I counted 60+ floating craft. Makes it interesting in a float tube when the W comes up and there’s a pram anchored up in all the likely spots!
 
In case your wondering I saw my shadow today... so it could be winter is over OR it could mean there is still time for "The Effect" to kick in and more snow to come... bwahaha @Billy how are things looking at "the Hole" (Moses that is)?

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It was a great wave here today for up to 36... and again but if a melt off.

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(Looking almost directly south)
 
So my questions is "Are lakes going to be frozen a month out"?

In western WA., the lake I live on is frozen over every morning. Then by afternoon, it is half frozen over. Ice is thick enough that the geese can not break through it. The outlet stream has been frozen over for a month or more. My guess, no ice by March 1st here.

What say y'all about central and eastern Wa.?
 
Although we are going to start seeing some highs in the upper 40's, maybe even 50 before the end of the month I don't hold a lot of hope for the March 1st openers here in "eastern, eastern WA", (aka damn near Idaho).
I'm most likely going to have to set my sights on someplace in "western, eastern WA" to find some open water.:D
 
Enough here to get the snow shovel out and probably more coming during the week. The first warmup is in the 10 day forecast though. But will it last….
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Old406Kid said:
Although we are going to start seeing some highs in the upper 40's, maybe even 50 before the end of the month I don't hold a lot of hope for the March 1st openers here in "eastern, eastern WA", (aka damn near Idaho).
I'm most likely going to have to set my sights on someplace in "western, eastern WA" to find some open water.:D
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Up here in "upper,upper,eastern,eastern" (aka almost Canada, almost Idaho) nothing opens before the 4th Saturday in April anyway so March 1 is a moot point. The question is will things be open for the April startup? I think they will but some years it is close and opening day water temps are so low we wish we had stayed home. Last week we had about 5 days of below zero weather as cold as -6 with some days never warmer than 14 degrees, cold enough to freeze over the mighty Pend Oreille River in places. And yesterday it warmed to 32 and snowed about 6 more inches last night making a total of over 2 feet on the ground at this point.

Eleven of the next fifteen days show daytime temps in the forties so that will help but eight of those days also predict nighttime snow so it will continue to be interesting. Typically we don't get going up here until about mid May anyway and then are shut down for July and August due to high water temps. Then in September things start to improve but get shut down again on October 31st. I don't know what the hell is so magic about October 31 that the season has to end then. There are very few people fishing at that point anyway but November often has some good weather right up till Thanksgiving that would be prime time.
 
iveofione said:
Up here in "upper,upper,eastern,eastern" (aka almost Canada, almost Idaho) nothing opens before the 4th Saturday in April anyway so March 1 is a moot point. The question is will things be open for the April startup? I think they will but some years it is close and opening day water temps are so low we wish we had stayed home. Last week we had about 5 days of below zero weather as cold as -6 with some days never warmer than 14 degrees, cold enough to freeze over the mighty Pend Oreille River in places. And yesterday it warmed to 32 and snowed about 6 more inches last night making a total of over 2 feet on the ground at this point.

Eleven of the next fifteen days show daytime temps in the forties so that will help but eight of those days also predict nighttime snow so it will continue to be interesting. Typically we don't get going up here until about mid May anyway and then are shut down for July and August due to high water temps. Then in September things start to improve but get shut down again on October 31st. I don't know what the hell is so magic about October 31 that the season has to end then. There are very few people fishing at that point anyway but November often has some good weather right up till Thanksgiving that would be prime time.
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But Ive...you've got some lovely little lakes up near your tundra that remain 'open' year around...if you don't mind choppin' through the ice!

And yeah....the general season October 31st closure makes little sense in our neck of the woods.
 
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