6" with an icy crust on top in lower Dutchess County.  The kind of stuff that snaps tree limbs and brings powerlines down.  I'm hearing another blast coming our way for Friday.  Hurry Spring like weather.

Just got done clearing the drive 6 inches of that heavy heart attack snow.   The kind that leaves the shape of the blade  in the bank.   They are saying could be some heavy lake effect in the future.......
 

The forecast sounds as if there will be at least 12-15 by Thurs when it is supposed to wind down.
Here in Ohio it snowed off and on all day but no accumulation.Took the dogs for a walk and the wind is brutal,no fishing for me until that dies down.

Yeah clint, it was probably more before the wet cross over late morning/afternoon... now, i just checked a few different forecasts in which one totaled up 22 inches through thursday night.... scary stuff... im just gonna watch it happen at this point and see what it ends up in the end. I know i thought 12" by thursday but theres already 6" + and now we're about to get whooped hardcore

100' up on a stone pile in a D-9 WITHOUT heat and its snowing and blowing.
Mostly BLOWING !!!

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Now that does blow.
 
 

I have a question of the resident trib folks and maybe it's a dumb one but here goes.
What is the status of the SR estuary ? Open or frozen ?
I'm only assuming frozen but we know what the first 3 letters in that means.
Reason I ask is its been frozen most winters in my short term . Seems though once she busts open the fishing seems to pick up.
Now maybe I'm half baked or half frozen for lack of heat in this machine and given the higher flows it has kept the estuary fairly open but agin , just a dumb question about the weather up there...

I don't know much but I know when the ice goes off I bay the fish start to show in numbers.

This was the first year that I saw a good run in I creek before the ice went off the bay.  I went over the 104 bridge both ways on Sunday, and the south end was ice free, but there was still a shore to shore sheet from Newport Yacht to German Village.  It would be interesting if what we saw two weeks ago was just a precursor and the main run is yet to come but experience and the calendar, and the suckers, say that's not the case.  But HT's observation about the estuary makes sense, an ice shelf would have to at least slow the fish down.
 
Happy first day of spring.  Don't put away your shovels yet (mine stay out until at least 5/15).
 
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Shovels are still out but at this point ive been just pulling in and out multiple doing the poor mans snow plowing :) its bad enough shoveling dirt and concrete all day long... but to go home and shovel snow afterwards is another thing :)
After tonight i may have to bite the bullet and do a little driveway cleaning though... we'll see

Thank god for four wheel drive!!!