Ice Is Out ! May 3, 2011
Finally, that sheet of white stuff left our world last night. Yesterday I heard my first loon on the lake, so that makes it official: fishing is here for the next five and a half months. We’ll have boats in the water for this weekend to pursue all of those holdover trout.
Yes, we still have some ice on Back Lake, but after the long cold winter that we had, we were kind of expecting this. It won’t be long now though, as the lake underwent a major metamorphosis this week. The deluge of rain that we received, along with our warm temperatures weakened the ice greatly.
This could be the year of a record “Ice Out” on Back Lake. There is already a little open water along the edges of the lake. I’ve never seen weather like this in the twenty-seven years we’ve been in Pittsburg. Tom and Jon have been out fishing but nothing yet. Water temp out of Murphy Dam is 37 degrees. We’re all itching to get out there.