Well, if short warm winters are a detriment to perch spawning, this year should be spectacularly productive! Snowed three days in a row now, in early April! We had ice on the pond yesterday morning with a low of 18 degrees. Please make it stop.

The ribbons are still there, but I worry that they will fail as they are getting coated with sediment. Too cold to progress.

This weekend it is supposed to warm up a lot, but it is on a razor's edge as the warm front will be draped overhead. The north side gets the 40's, the south the 70's. It wont be the first time our house sits in warmth where only 1/4 mile away is stuck in the cold on the north side. Based on our depressing weather trend, I have little hope we will exceed 50 degrees this weekend. The forecast keeps flip-flopping between pure trash and beautiful.