Two Hearted River questions

[Ladykiller]

I plan on possibly hitting the Two-Hearted River for steelhead at the end of March this year. Does anyone know if it will be open or frozen by then? Does it ever freeze? I have never been there and would like some helpful information. Even spots to hit are appreciated as this will be my first time there. I don't plan on hitting it again, at least not for a few years ... I would rather drive the short trips to our southern rivers. I'll just be in the area hunting bunnies and I would like to wade and catch some steel as well. Feel free to email or PM me.

Thanks,

Tim

[riverboy]

Tim give me a call. I have fished it a couple of times.

[Whit1]

Tim,
You'll only be able to fish the river at the High Bridge which is on the road from Newberry to Muskelunge Lake/Deer Park. The back roads will all be snowed in and impassible. It think they keep the road plowed to the mouth. I'd give the Luce County Road Commission a call about driving to the mouth.

The river will be very high and may be unfishable at that time of year.

[AceMcbanon]

There is about 2 inches of snow left in marquette and its raining as I speak. It's been a warm febuary, but you can never guess what will happen between here and the end of march. Most of the river should be ice free by then as even the slower rivers in this area are not frozen. As too snow on the two trails and access points it all depends on how much snow we get and when it will melt. Forcast looks like upper 20's and then above freezing for 4 or 5 days again up to 40 and above. If it stays like this which it has for about 20 days then things should be much earlier then the previous year.

I'm gonan go out tomm since all this snow has melted and see if there is anything real early this year.

At least this year most of the lake hasen't froze over. No shanties on the bays this year which was sorta dissapointing, but at least we wont have ice in the harbor all the way to june like last year.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mqt/LatestSnowfall.jpg

Good map to keep track even though updated once a week. Most of those totals should be down since we had a wet snow storm right before the 23rd and it's been warm all week.

[Whit1]

Even after all the thawing and today's rain, we still have over a foot of snow on the ground in the open, with more in the woods.

That area of Luce County really gets dumped on with snow. I would suspect there is still a goodly depth in the woods up there.

[WAUB-MUKWA]

East of Van Meer and luce county is over 200 inches of snow so far this year. Record highs all last week, but still plenty of snow not to get where you want to fish.;)