Is it going to Freeze this Winter?

[SkunkedAgain]

Was looking at the forecast today and I'm not a weatherman, but I try to play one on the site and I think we may see some ice finally on the lower elevation ponds.... I know weather reports tend to change as often as my mind about where I should go fishing, but as of this afternoon, they are predicting about 8 days of good temperatures for forming ice.... Not great temperatures, but on the edge where they will build ice over enough time... I'm hoping I'm right on this one, or else I'm going to have to give up on ice fishing for the year... or start traveling to find ice to fish.... freeze baby freeezeeee...

[Humbadingo]

Was looking at the forecast today and I'm not a weatherman, but I try to play one on the site and I think we may see some ice finally on the lower elevation ponds.... I know weather reports tend to change as often as my mind about where I should go fishing, but as of this afternoon, they are predicting about 8 days of good temperatures for forming ice.... Not great temperatures, but on the edge where they will build ice over enough time... I'm hoping I'm right on this one, or else I'm going to have to give up on ice fishing for the year... or start traveling to find ice to fish.... freeze baby freeezeeee...

Looking at Pineview on the UDOT traffic cam it's showing ice forming in the narrows. With the cold weather coming it maybe fishable next week. Fingers crossed!

[Freakyfisherman]

Was looking at the forecast today and I'm not a weatherman, but I try to play one on the site and I think we may see some ice finally on the lower elevation ponds.... I know weather reports tend to change as often as my mind about where I should go fishing, but as of this afternoon, they are predicting about 8 days of good temperatures for forming ice.... Not great temperatures, but on the edge where they will build ice over enough time... I'm hoping I'm right on this one, or else I'm going to have to give up on ice fishing for the year... or start traveling to find ice to fish.... freeze baby freeezeeee...

Im starting to feel like this might be the winter that never was. I am thinking of either Woodruff narrows or Sulfur creek in Wyoming on Thursday next week. They are higher in elevation and it get really cold near Evanston. Both have fish I like to catch. Yellow perch in Woodruff narrows, and maybe some walleye still reside in Sulfur creek. Both species in that region are considered invasive and catch and kill policy. I have never found perch in the Woodruff narrows in the one trip in the float tube I have tried there. I have fished Sulfur creek probably 4 or 5 times and have only caught cigar sized walleye on open water and through the ice. Most people are tight lipped when it comes to fishing information in Wyoming. I drove by Mantua yesteday and saw some ice and also big open pockets of water.
Gabe

[dubob]

Im starting to feel like this might be the winter that never was. I am thinking of either Woodruff narrows or Sulfur creek in Wyoming on Thursday next week. They are higher in elevation and it get really cold near Evanston. Both have fish I like to catch. Yellow perch in Woodruff narrows, and maybe some walleye still reside in Sulfur creek. Both species in that region are considered invasive and catch and kill policy. I have never found perch in the Woodruff narrows in the one trip in the float tube I have tried there. I have fished Sulfur creek probably 4 or 5 times and have only caught cigar sized walleye on open water and through the ice. Most people are tight lipped when it comes to fishing information in Wyoming. I drove by Mantua yesteday and saw some ice and also big open pockets of water.
Gabe

I ice fished it once.  Tried 4 or 5 areas around the lake.  Never found the perch.

[Muskyon46]

This is some 2nd hand info from a friend in Evanston about woodruff narrows

 I spoke with the regional fisheries biologist from Wyoming Game and Fish this past July. He said there a big fish kill a few years ago at Woodruff Narrows and the fishing hasn't been good since. 

I remember your last trip there Bob, it was mine also lol

[Freakyfisherman]

This is some 2nd hand info from a friend in Evanston about woodruff narrows

 I spoke with the regional fisheries biologist from Wyoming Game and Fish this past July. He said there a big fish kill a few years ago at Woodruff Narrows and the fishing hasn't been good since. 

I remember your last trip there Bob, it was mine also lol

Thanks for the information. I think I tried 5 years ago, so before the fish kill. This will make my decision a bit easier. 
Gabe

[MSM1970]

Was looking at the forecast today and I'm not a weatherman, but I try to play one on the site and I think we may see some ice finally on the lower elevation ponds.... I know weather reports tend to change as often as my mind about where I should go fishing, but as of this afternoon, they are predicting about 8 days of good temperatures for forming ice.... Not great temperatures, but on the edge where they will build ice over enough time... I'm hoping I'm right on this one, or else I'm going to have to give up on ice fishing for the year... or start traveling to find ice to fish.... freeze baby freeezeeee...

I think we should just keep it soft.  even Steinaker is soft water, it did look like they pulled the wedge dock, but that's only been maybe a couple weeks ago. it looked like you could still launch on new years. 

Just think the coldest averages come about Jan 12 the is starts getting warmer.

reported FG finding on another post.

[Muskyon46]

This is some 2nd hand info from a friend in Evanston about woodruff narrows

 I spoke with the regional fisheries biologist from Wyoming Game and Fish this past July. He said there a big fish kill a few years ago at Woodruff Narrows and the fishing hasn't been good since. 

I remember your last trip there Bob, it was mine also lol

Thanks for the information. I think I tried 5 years ago, so before the fish kill. This will make my decision a bit easier. 
Gabe

I have been on the ice at little creek, Birch,  woodruff, causey and fontenelle so there is some fishable ice. Not sure how much snow is on the roads going into Birch and woodruff now though as it's been a couple weeks since I was in there. I have also seen some reports of people fishing sulpher

[BearLakeFishGuy]

We fished Bear Lake today and water temp was 39F and we took off our coats by 0900 and were peeling off layers the rest of the day. Unless it really gets cold and stay that way for a few weeks it will be surprising if Bear Lake freezes this year. (Oh, the fishing was good today too!)

[Cowboypirate]

Echo, Rockport and East Canyon are trying to cap. All three have grey very bad ice on about 40% yesterday. But it was warm and some brezze so it may have broken it up again. Still open shore fishing options on all three. See a few fish caught

[SkunkedAgain]

Well, keep your fingers crossed, but it still looks like starting tomorrow that the colder temps will roll in... Maybe fishing the hard deck by the weekend... Sure want to get on the ice this year.... but not wanting to travel too far to do it... Did hear some Idaho info over the weekend, but didn't sound like great reports.... Did see one with 11" of ice and lots of small perch but the other two reports were very slow fishing... Sounded like my Willard trip... Later J

[SkunkedAgain]

Anyone out checking today to see what ice is forming? I seen 13 degrees this morning as my low in Benson, but I'm in the office so I didn't get to check my pond this morning and see how much ice we got last night... But as cold as it feels today, I'll bet it put more ice on the pond than the night before... Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for good ice by the weekend... Later J

[Muskyon46]

Made it up to causey this morning. Ice had grown a bit. Found 9-10in in the dam area. More than half that being clear. Edges firmed up good where there's been traffic. 9deg when I got there and 26 when I left. No bites today as I was fishing blind for 3hrs cause I left the fish finder battery on the work bench. Oh well beat being at work for sure.

[wiperhunter2]

Made it up to causey this morning. Ice had grown a bit. Found 9-10in in the dam area. More than half that being clear. Edges firmed up good where there's been traffic. 9deg when I got there and 26 when I left. No bites today as I was fishing blind for 3hrs cause I left the fish finder battery on the work bench. Oh well beat being at work for sure.

Thanks for the report Matt, too bad the catching was happening for you. What area were you fishing?

[Muskyon46]

Made it up to causey this morning. Ice had grown a bit. Found 9-10in in the dam area. More than half that being clear. Edges firmed up good where there's been traffic. 9deg when I got there and 26 when I left. No bites today as I was fishing blind for 3hrs cause I left the fish finder battery on the work bench. Oh well beat being at work for sure.

Thanks for the report Matt, too bad the catching was happening for you. What area were you fishing?

Fished out in the middle from the dam. Then worked some shallower areas closer to shore before calling it

[wiperhunter2]

Made it up to causey this morning. Ice had grown a bit. Found 9-10in in the dam area. More than half that being clear. Edges firmed up good where there's been traffic. 9deg when I got there and 26 when I left. No bites today as I was fishing blind for 3hrs cause I left the fish finder battery on the work bench. Oh well beat being at work for sure.

Thanks for the report Matt, too bad the catching was happening for you. What area were you fishing?

Fished out in the middle from the dam. Then worked some shallower areas closer to shore before calling it

Thats the area we use to fish and most of the fish seemed to be closer to shore in 6 to 15 fow . We would fish the deeper water as well, hoping for a koke or two to come by but we rarely caught fish deeper than 15 ft.