Wow, what a difference a week makes. I think that's how I started my report last week - well, again wow, what a difference a week makes! LAKE SABRINA IS ICE-FREE! Yup, the pesky w-i-n-d which we all soooo detest, finally did some good in breaking up the ice. Saturday morning the Lake was still iced-over pretty darn good - the w-i-n-d started coming up and by Saturday evening, it was a'blowing and it was getting colder with not a cloud in the sky. Sunday, we woke to about 3 inches of snow and an ice-free Lake - woooo-hoooo!

We had some hardy souls out on the Lake - yup, that's what I said - out on the Lake in their float tubes, no less - John Nguyen, Jeff & JD hiked to open water - gives me the shivers just thinking about it. There were quite a few shore anglers that made the trek toward the back of the Lake Saturday and came out with limits. Yup - the bite is still on at LakeSabrina with just about everything working. We'll try and get a few boats on the Lake for this coming weekend and boat prices will stay the same as last year (for now!)

The Bald Eagles have returned - that's plural - we've spotted 3 of them and one of them is a youngster - it's got a spotted underbelly - so relaxing watching them soar over the Lake.

Mother Nature is still letting us know who's in charge - last Monday it snowed almost all day, then again on Sunday where it again snowed on and off all day - temps never climbed above 25 degrees and factoring in the wind-chill it was 6 degrees. We kept the woodstove stoked all day. Rick listened to Howard and thru Wednesday it's not going to be nice. Thursday and Friday we MAY warm to the 50's, but another storm with a chance of snow is due in for the weekend. You can check www.weather.gov and enter ASPENDELL, CA on the site and it will give you a fairly good hint at the weather.