We fished the river on 4/4. We stopped by Birchdale around 8:30am. There were a lot of chunks of skim ice flowing down the river. So much that it looked like it would be very hard to fish. You were able to launch a boat tho. In between Birchdale and Frontier there was a lot of solid skim ice Checked Frontier after that. It was all locked up with skim ice and you could not launch a boat. We decided to go down to Vidas and go ice fishing. Still a foot of decent ice off the landing. Ice fished till about 12:30. Checked frontier on the way to Birchdale and someone had put a boat in and there were a few boats fishing in the area. A lot of the skim ice had broken up and was getting pushed around inbetween Frontier and Birchdale. Decent amount of open water to fish. We put in at Birchdale. Still quite a bit of jumbled skim ice in the area but we could find areas to fish. It got easier to fish as the day went on. Slow day for numbers but we did manage to get a 25″ and fat 29.5″. Warmest water we saw was 33.5. Current seems to have slowed even more since last week and the water is clear.
Picture is frontier landing at 8:30am 4/4
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