Ririe Ice

[wiperhunter2]

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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.

nice eating size cats  Doesnt Willard have crappie in it? At least that is what I always heard. If so, are they located in any particular place? Might be something to do before the Preston area waters open up for crappie and blue gills. Im out of some good slabs  Glad your getting out though. Just looked out my window here at 7:30 and the snow is coming down hard, mean, I can hardly see out to the barn and its about 200ft. I can make it out, but its tough to do. And tomorrow supposed to be sunny and in the 50's, lol. Go figure Idaho spring weather, lol

Yes it does but they are hard to target except right around spawning time. It good years, where their numbers are high, we start catching them about a month before they spawn. They are hard to catch any other time of the year, they are caught a few here and a few there but it's hard to catch limits. We have even caught them while ice fishing but it has been a number of years since their numbers have been up. 
I think that storm you are getting up North of us is headed this way but it's suppose to start off with rain and then later change to snow. Our mountains could use the snow and I'm sure they will get some out of this storm.