Thompson Chain of Lakes

[Quantoson]

Anybody been there or live there?  Was going on Saturday. With all this rain I wonder if there is any ice left?  Need ice condition report, please.

[Stephan_K]

Haven't heard anything lately.  Call Snappy's... they have ice reports for quite a few lakes in the area and last I looked at their chalk board a week and a half ago, upper and middle had ice.  Maybe they have an update.

[Quantoson]

Thanks Stephan, we are going to lower Thompson on Sunday.  Our Plans were for Saturday but I need 1 day to recover after our Duck Lake trip on Friday.

[gregv17]

I know this does not help much now as you are probably already out there. Might help someone else who wants to go out there. Went to Upper Thompson yesterday (Jan 10) with a couple of friends from church. Ice was in 2 layers but was still good all the way through. 12" total thickness. Take your ice cleats though as there is no snow on the ice and you could play hockey on the lake. We caught loads of perch, 2 pike, and one way spawned out salmon. We brought home 64 decent sized perch and let go probably 3 times that many. Fun day on the ice.

[Quantoson]

I went out there today and the ice is white the first 3 1/2" to 4" then 3" of clear ice below that.  That's the thickest ice I ran into.  There is water and some slush on top but not much.
I fished as deep as 32' and as shallow as 4'.  Water is really clear below the ice.  Drilled only 34 holes and could see fish in everyone of them but could not get them to hit.

The wind was steady but not strong enough to blow away buckets.   Not even the wind had a bite to it.  Well my wife thought the wind had a bite to it as you can see in the picture.  But she makes a great guard dog for my auger.
The Derby is next weekend and I hope I do better.  I may hit the Middle Thompson a few more times this week.

[Neptune]

What were you after Quanto?  Perch, Kokes, Pike, Trout???

[Quantoson]

 perch and rainbow.  And I saw the perch, rainbow and 1 small pike through the holes.