03-19-2022, 01:50 PM
(03-19-2022, 01:10 PM)duksnfish Wrote: hey wiper, how did you do at Willard? I had dr appointment in SLC last week and it was wide open and quite a number of boats at the parking lot along the interstate. Originally, the weather had a high temp of 75 in Idaho Falls on Wednesday but they have dialed it back now to in the lower 60's but thats still warm now with substantial snow on Sunday. Typical March spring weather for around here. Back on March 29, 2017 it was my first year going after Kok's and my brother in law and I limited out on our first trip out not know what the crap we were even doing. So, ice was totally gone and we had several days of torrential down pours of rain after that, but, I dont remember any snow days. So, if its gonna be open by the end of March, it does have to start melting soon and fast.
Still gives me time to get my boat up and running and a couple of things fixed on it.
Be safe on the ice if your still going out. It's that time of year that ice can be sketchy and you dont even realize it. We dont need to loose anyone this late in the season.
We did pretty good for our first trip out for the open season of 2022, here is a link to that report:
https://www.bigfishtackle.com/forum/show...id=1100460
As far as Ririe, the temps and the wind up there will be what determines how fast it will melt for sure. I was just going by what I saw at the time and the colder temps. Spring is coming and with it the warmer temps. I'm done with ice fishing for the season. good luck with getting your boat ready.