Bear Lake ice changing rapidly. Tuesday 1/28

[Fishdude]

Yep. Changing fast. I wouldn't go back out on it. I fished off the pump house until I couldn't stand the noise and shifting ice any more and then got off. That ice was 5 inches thick, but it was moving! Plus there were areas of open water and big cracks and gaps, so if the ice does stick around through the storm and there is snow on it, be extremely careful because you might go from 5 inches to nothing in a step.

That was me on the west side north of the rest stop. The ice was 5 inches thick there too, but I had to find a place across the big broken up gap that was 20 yards out from the bank. I think I need a valium. Not my brightest day.

At the pumphouse, one of these guys was wearing a life jacket:

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I did get this one cutthroat in 50 feet of water off the pumphouse.

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Getting off, I had to cross back over this nasty gap. Yeah - I can't recommend trying to get on the ice at the pump house. Hope everyone else got off OK.

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Drove up to second point to have a look. These guys were walking on water between first and second point.

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This is what the bank looked like at second point. The ice there was just a broken and piled up mess.

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