The east 4 miles of Blue Mesa is active with lots of folks fishing Iola, Stevens, North Willow and Dry Creek. Two of us hit up Iola looking for a combination of the 20” bows n 12” perch we found in the channel in September. Never found them, found lots of slimers to 16” bobo’s and a couple browns at 18”. Ice varied from 7-9”. A guy on a Snowdog paraded around but didn’t fish much. We were there Sunday so about 10 cars at Iola and that many at Stevens. Was supposed to be negative 8 but temps were 3 to 28 with zero wind. Most fish showed on the Marcum at 16-24’, best color glow white. Wax worm tipper. Nice start to the season, going back tomorrow.