# Ice off predictions, who has seen the weather forecast? **URL:** \ **Category:** Utah Fishing General\ **Created:** [February 12, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702 "2008-02-12T21:04:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![StrictlyBiznuss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@StrictlyBiznuss](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/StrictlyBiznuss)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/1 "2008-02-12T21:04:53Z")
So am I the only one that has been paying attention to the weather? I am definitely a huge fan of what I am seeing for the upcoming 10 days. šŸ•¶ Who has got some predictions about when the ice will come off of some of my favorite bassinā€™ locations around here: Utah Lake, Deer Creek, and Jordanelle? The ice is pretty thick right now (over a foot at Utah Lake). Iā€™m just hoping that it all comes off by my birthday on March 5th. Whatā€™s it gonna take for all this ice to come off by then guys? I need to get my boat back in the water! ---
**Author:** ![hedgesd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bbe5ce/32.png) [@hedgesd](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/hedgesd)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/2 "2008-02-12T21:49:17Z")
Unless there is extreme warm weather then the ice will come off the same time as last year. ---
**Author:** ![PBH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e480ec/32.png) [@PBH](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/PBH)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/3 "2008-02-12T21:56:20Z")
[reply] S Whatā€™s it gonna take for all this ice to come off by then guys? [/reply] Wind. Thatā€™s all. Just wind. ---
**Author:** ![Fin-S-Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Fin-S-Fish](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Fin-S-Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/4 "2008-02-12T22:24:27Z")
Sorry, but not anxious hereā€¦I wish the ice would stay till Aprilā€¦bass fishing is better in winter actually, lol. And plenty of open water to enjoy if youā€™re willing to drive a million miles to the middle of nowhere. [;)] Weā€™ll just keep the location details at that. Iā€™m hoping for a nice cold spell to maintain the ice and keep the patterns going for another few weeks more at least. ---
**Author:** ![PBH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e480ec/32.png) [@PBH](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/PBH)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/5 "2008-02-12T23:09:31Z")
[reply] Sorry, but not anxious hereā€¦I wish the ice would stay till Aprilā€¦[/reply] It will. On certain lakesā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![bwhitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@bwhitty](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/bwhitty)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/6 "2008-02-13T15:04:15Z")
No your not the only one! Ice fishing is alright, but for me it is something to kill the time until the fishing gods once again grant us access to soft water. [angelic][angelic][angelic] ---
**Author:** ![StrictlyBiznuss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@StrictlyBiznuss](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/StrictlyBiznuss)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/7 "2008-02-13T17:32:13Z")
You wouldā€¦ ha, you are right though, bass fishing is can be pretty good in the winterā€¦that isā€¦if you live someplace where the water doesnā€™t freeze! Actually, my best day of bass fishing for largemouths on Utah Lake last year was the day before Thanksgiving. Water temps on the main lake were 38 degrees. However, the water was open so I could launch my boat. I have caught lots of big bass in the winter monthsā€¦in California. It sounds to me like you arenā€™t fishing frozen waters right now though. Quite frankly, I donā€™t have the gas money to drive a million miles to find open water. I need the lakes HERE to have open water! Iā€™m hoping for that after this upcoming week of warming weather we get a few days with some BIG wind to break up that foot thick ice at Utah Lakeā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![michaelbolton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@michaelbolton](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/michaelbolton)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/8 "2008-02-13T18:36:45Z")
I remember getting into an arguement with someone on the old DWR forum, I said that I had seen ice come off the berry by mid april, he claimed I was on crack. What time did it come off last year?? I thought it was the beginning to mid April, I would like a repeat of that but Iā€™m thinking the berry by early May, Jordanelle completely ice free by early April same with Deer Creek, but I could be way offā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![trout\_slayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@trout\_slayer](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/trout_slayer)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/9 "2008-02-13T19:19:41Z")
I have pictures from last year fishing Jordanelle and Deer Creek on the 30th of March. From my boat!!! There wasnt even a speck of ice or snow in site so the ice must have been gone for a while. BUT, that was last year, we are having a better ā€œwinterā€ this year. I am with some of the guys on here though, I want to put my damn boat back in the water where she belongs!!! TS ---
**Author:** ![toyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5e9695/32.png) [@toyguy](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/toyguy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/10 "2008-02-13T19:46:57Z")
These are questions that can be answered with just a little self-initiative. Just go back to all prior years around March and start going dateforward in the posts. Look for post titles that include phrases like ice-off. But not necessarily, as my example below shows. And to keep going back further in prior years, just edit/change the page number showing in the URL. The page number is the last item in the URL string. For example: [http://www.bigfishtackle.com/forum/Utah\_Fishing\_Forum\_C55/General\_Discusion\_F58-91](http://www.bigfishtackle.com/forum/Utah_Fishing_Forum_C55/General_Discusion_F58-91). The 91 is the page number. Want to go about 1 year back? Change the 91 to 191. The URL starts showing page numbers on page 2 of the Board. So April 2007 would be around 90 Add like 90 to 100 to the page number every time. Thatā€™s how many pages the BFT General Discussion Board generates in a year. Want an example of the answer to your question? Hereā€™s Strawberry 2007: [Psst, open water at the Berry](http://www.bigfishtackle.com/forum/Utah_Fishing_Forum_C55/General_Discusion_F58/Psst%2C_open_water_at_the_Berry_P328081/) BTW, I have found this actually quicker than searching the subject of ā€œIce offā€ or the likes. Boatable ice off occurs generally within 2 weeks of the same time every year, but as PBH the Loser wrote, wind may alter the date. You can start planning your trips now, with this knowledge in hand. Next, BTW. Relax. All you softwater guys are gonna drive yourselves crazy. S-berryā€™s not for another 8 weeks, J-nelle and DC are mid to late March, but the big gurl SMBā€™s wonā€™t ā€œshow upā€ in J-nelle til late April. And believe it or not, if you go back to prior years for the Gorge, it typically ice-offs sooner than the Berry. And thatā€™s how Iā€™m planning my spring trip schedule so far. So keep puttin ā€œXā€ marks on the days of the calendar, and think warm thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![wiper\_junkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f1d935/32.png) [@wiper\_junkie](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/wiper_junkie)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/11 "2008-02-13T20:01:53Z")
Hereā€™s a pic of yours truely on Jordanelle on 3-22 last year. The only ice was in the Rock Cliff arm. For the last two years Iā€™ve had my boat on Jordanelle in the thrid week of March. Willlard is usually ice free by the last few days of Feb., or first week of March. However, as some have mentioned, this was a much colder and wet winter than in recent years, so Iā€™m thinking it might push ice off back by a week or so. But than as another poster commented, all it takes is wind. Whatever the case, ice off wonā€™t happen soon enough for me [;)] Fred K. ---
**Author:** ![HaggardW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/48db29/32.png) [@HaggardW](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/HaggardW)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/12 "2008-02-13T20:33:35Z")
I have been praying to the ice gods for an additional 8 months of winter and ice. I have even gone so far as to tie a garbage bag to the foot of every marmot I have found so they will see a shadow and go back home. Ice off this year has been canceled and I will continue drillin holes into July! ā€¦waitā€¦ just a secā€¦.. My wife has just informed me I have to go remove the garbage bags and retract my prayersā€¦. I guess ice off will happen afterall. [:)] ---
**Author:** ![StrictlyBiznuss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@StrictlyBiznuss](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/StrictlyBiznuss)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/13 "2008-02-13T21:02:09Z")
About 5 or 6 years ago when I was living in this area before, I recall fishing a tournament on Utah Lake on March 3rdā€¦that was 3 days after ice off. Only problem is, I donā€™t recall that winter being that severe and I donā€™t remember how thick the ice ever got that winterā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/14 "2008-02-13T22:33:01Z")
šŸ•¶ **This is what it looked like at Lincoln Beach on March 9 last year.** ---
**Author:** ![bassrods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/59ef9b/32.png) [@bassrods](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/bassrods)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/15 "2008-02-14T00:49:23Z")
The ice will be gone from Utah lake and any other lakes west of I 15 by the end of Februaryā€¦ Deer creek and Jordanelle will be ice free with in a week of that if we get a good south wind of over 40 MPHā€¦ Pineview about two weeks after Jordanelleā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/16 "2008-02-14T01:02:40Z")
šŸ•¶ā€œThe ice will be gone from Utah lake and any other lakes west of I 15 by the end of Februaryā€¦ā€ * * * **Iā€™ll take that bet. It was milder last winter and I could not get my tube on Utah Lake until almost mid March. The ice is much thicker now than last year.** ---
**Author:** ![toyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5e9695/32.png) [@toyguy](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/toyguy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/17 "2008-02-14T01:51:59Z")
BR - Youā€™ve been smokin bass again. Youā€™re callin for a March 7th ice off at Jordanelle if thereā€™s one good blow? Weā€™re talkin launching at Hailstone and cruising open water all the way to the dam? Check your temperature; me thinks you gots spring feverā€¦šŸ˜² ---
**Author:** ![N.E.T.O](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@N.E.T.O](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/N.E.T.O)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/18 "2008-02-14T16:40:50Z")
I understand from a very reliable source that Lake Powell is already completely free of iceā€¦[angelic] Randy ---
**Author:** ![bassrods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/59ef9b/32.png) [@bassrods](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/bassrods)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/19 "2008-02-14T20:40:47Z")
Weā€™ll seeā€¦[;)]šŸ•¶ And yes I do have spring feverā€¦BADā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![brookieguy1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b4bc9f/32.png) [@brookieguy1](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/brookieguy1)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702/20 "2008-02-15T01:34:12Z")
I donā€™t think Minersville will be ice-free by the end of Feb. The ice is still 15 inches thick. But I hope youā€™re right. Iā€™ve had a gut full of the hard stuff! [Next page](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/ice-off-predictions-who-has-seen-the-weather-forecast/120702.md?page=2)