Ice is off Dolberg

[smitty9]

Dad and I went to Dolberg yesterday, ice is off the lake. Caught some fish, no biggies, lots of hits. Big bombers coming off the lake, but not in numbers; we're either early or late (I suspect a bit early). Lots of swimming boatmen.

Fishin' Buddy said surface temps of 52oF. Thought the water is colder myself, but that's only a surface temp reading.

Classic springtime flies worked; leeches, chronomids, and backswimmers.

Cool biological moment is I've never been to this lake this early; on the far side by the beaverdam, there was quite a bit of "low pitched chatter" along the shoreline. Dad and I thought long and hard, as it became fairly apparent this wasn't birds. So we came up with mating frogs. Quite a ruckus!

Good fishing,
Smitty

[idaman]

The mating frogs are pretty neat was watching them last weekend, the females are much larger and have a almost redish color, it was like a big frog orgy...
The ice has been off since those big winds a couple of weekends ago,I have been out several times already and the surface Temps have been over 50 for over a week now on the north side. Found it interesting the temp difference between there and the launch as it was @ 6-7 degrees Fahrenheit different.

[haggard]

I was there the other weekend too, those frogs were crazy, i took my zodiac in for a closer look and there had to been about a hundred of the buggers in the weeds

[brohymn2]

Sweet might hit it up next week

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