01-10-2011, 10:00 PM
Anyone driven across the dam and Anderson Ranch? What is the ice like? Someone must still be fishing the south fork of the Boise....
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01-10-2011, 10:00 PM
01-11-2011, 05:21 AM
Please do not go on the ice at Anderson. Every year someone goes through. The currents and springs in that lake prevent the ice from ever really being safe. There will be soft spots and thin places, even if the ice is 11 or 12 inches. If you do go out, wear a life jacket and take a rope. I am deadly serious, the Search and Rescue guys have had to do several recoveries up there over the last decade.
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01-11-2011, 05:35 PM
Thanks for the advice. I know the ice can be very questionable there. That's why I was hoping for an eye witness account on ice conditions.
I used to fish it often during the winter in Jan/Feb. I would put my tube in near the dam and fish deep, dragging leeches. I could make it across the dam and back, then I'd have to go to the truck and warm up. Usually only 2-3 passes a day and I was done (too cold to go again). I'd almost always catch several.
Sometimes there was ice extending toward the dam and sometimes there was no visible ice anywhere from the dam.
Once I went prepared to ice fish at the boat ramp near the dam (elk creek?) and found only open water with no ice anywhere, so I bank yanked it and did fairly well.
I've never seen it iced clear to the dam.
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I used to fish it often during the winter in Jan/Feb. I would put my tube in near the dam and fish deep, dragging leeches. I could make it across the dam and back, then I'd have to go to the truck and warm up. Usually only 2-3 passes a day and I was done (too cold to go again). I'd almost always catch several.
Sometimes there was ice extending toward the dam and sometimes there was no visible ice anywhere from the dam.
Once I went prepared to ice fish at the boat ramp near the dam (elk creek?) and found only open water with no ice anywhere, so I bank yanked it and did fairly well.
I've never seen it iced clear to the dam.
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01-12-2011, 04:10 AM
Doesn't that reservoir have land locked chinook? Have you ever or heard of any one catching one? I've been hunting around there some and always wanted to fish it but never have.
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01-12-2011, 02:03 PM
I know there used to be, but I don't believe there are any left.
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01-12-2011, 05:05 PM
Yeah, they planted chinook between 82 and 85. Before that they were planting coho--in the 60's and 70's. I wonder why they discontinued it, because I do know of some people who hauled out some mighty nice chinook out of there. I sure wish our end of the state had a chinook fishery like Lake Coeur d'Alene. They have been doing quite well this late fall and winter, and for some really nice fish, many in the teens. Mike
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01-16-2011, 11:08 AM
I was there last weekend taking the dogs for a run. AR is open water except for just a small portion of ice less than 100 yards long after the boat launch in a small cove. not sure the name of the creek that flows into it but from the road it looked very thin. There was a plow when i was there clearing the road arround the dam.
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