The seasons change in a hurry. We have been gone for almost two weeks and when we got back home the snow was gone, except for a few piles pushed up by the snowplows. The river was wide open; the channel opened up under the bridge on March 16th, the second earliest opening since they have been keeping records dating back to 1934. It’s over a month earlier than in 2007; the year we were ice fishing the river near the middle of April. Regardless, it has been a nice welcome to spring.
When we arrived back home there was a noticeable absence of boat traffic. The reports I’m getting are that the fish have not moved into the river. Yesterday I went out to the Timbermill Park landing and talked to a guy that had just come in. They had gotten no fish; had been all the way out to the Gap and didn’t see much for fish being caught. I suppose with the somewhat abnormal fishing we had on the river this winter, we shouldn’t be surprised when fishing isn’t what it normally is at this time of the year.
Arvid's Fishing Report 