As of this morning we were still frozen up at all of the landings with the exception of Elk Creek. I am not sure how much open water is available, but I heard there was a boat in there. There is a lot of open water at the north end of the lake, so shore fishing would be possible in some areas. An update from Lynn Tharp this morning, the water up there is brown in color with visibility of less than 1 foot and it is 38 degrees.— With this warmer weather we are experiencing there is a lot of wildlife active so be careful on the roads. —- I heard rumor of a couple of local fishermen making some trips over to Thomas Hill this past week and being pretty successful on crappie.

Well, February is almost gone. The Twain is still pretty frozen with the exception of under the bridges and up at the dam. The ice is looking pretty shaky though, so it won’t take many nice days to clear it off. No change in the plans for the Christmas tree drop scheduled for March 20 or 27. I will keep you posted as I hear more. It sounds like we will most likely be dropping mostly cedar trees on this end of the lake. — Thank you to all who have been calling to confirm your reservations and getting your deposits in. It helps us through these long winter months, plus Mary gets to chat a bit. — We are looking forward to some nice weather!!

Here we are…Valentines Day already. It seems like it’s been a long winter, but that just means spring is on it’s way. It looks like we will have lot’s of help for the Christmas tree drop this year. That’s great!! We will likely be dropping a lot of cedars as well. The tentative date is still March 20, but it might be March 27. I will keep you all posted on that.—- I will be at the boat show up in Moline, Illinois this coming weekend. It was a great show last year and I expect it will be this year as well. Come on out and enjoy all the booths and seminars.—- Today is the last day for small game hunting. After that it will be coyotes and soon the snow geese should be showing up.—- I hear the walleye fishing over on the Mississippi River has been doing pretty good. Give Lynn Tharp a call if you want to hire a guide and get some good fishing in to break that cabin fever. His contact information is in the contacts area of this website. He can also take you up to Thomas Hill for a day of crappie fishing. I have heard of some good catches coming from there this winter.— The Twain is still frozen solid with the exception of a bit of open water under the bridges. I guess one could fish there or below the dam, but I haven’t heard of anyone doing that. I did hear of a lot of eagles up near the dam so that in itself would be worth a trip. If anyone is thinking about doing that call us first or post on here so I can find out if they are still there before you come.—- We are working hard around here trying to get some projects done to make the resort a bit better than last year for all of our guests. See you all soon

First let’s dispel the rumor about the Corp dropping the lake level. The plan is to drop the level in the re-reg pool in order to do some repairs on the re-reg damn.—- The Christmas tree drop is planned for either March 20 or March 27. If you plan to help please let me know so I can have a plan together on how many trees we can get in the water. If you can bring a boat, great….if not that’s great to because we need as many people on shore bundling the trees as we need boats to get them out on the water.—- There was a question from John Wirth a while back that asked about fishermen putting out trees or whatever for fish cover that I neglected to answer. You can put them out as long as you get permission from the Corp. You will need to let them know what it is you are putting out and where. They will then tell you if it’s ok, or what part of the equation isn’t ok. They are pretty careful about having trees put out in the traffic lanes as they don’t want a bunch of people losing lower units to unseen obstacles. We all know there are plenty of those out there the way it is.

We got 3-4″ of snow here and it is still snowing a little. I don’t think we’ll get much more accumulation. The roads here are snow packed so be careful.— Still 3 days to get that last deer with the muzzle loaders.— The lake is still open and there are some waterfowl hunters getting out. Lots of geese in the area.—As soon as I hear about the Christmas tree drop I will post it here. Anyone that has Christmas tree’s to donate can bring them here and drop them off.

We here at South Fork wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a fantastic New Year.