I was at the Valley River today (thursday). If you're going....bring a shovel. I got stuck and it took me an hour to shovel out...when I looked behind me, there were two more vehicles stuck that had pulled onto the ice. The snow and drifting in the past couple days has made it pretty difficult to get around. And, once it warms up later on in the afternoon, the snow is even slipperier. The fishing was still good though...caught my limit of eyes in about an hour and threw a few back that were over 18". All in all, a good day...but the shovelling just about killed me. There wasn't even a breaze to cool me off once I started sweating.