Will Beaver Freeze Over?

[Quillback]

Low temps in single digits this week, Thursday night supposedly down near zero, Friday, 4 degrees, gotta wonder if there might be a layer of ice forming. Has it ever froze over? I have only lived here three years, but maybe in the past it has. I am ready for spring. Heck, I would be happy with a 45 degree day right now.

[laker67]

At LOZ, this freezing is already occurring. Any areas protected from the wind, are skimming over at night. By the end of this coming week, I would expect to see ice 2 inches thick in these same areas.

[jeb]

Good question, Quillback. I've been here 4.5 years now and have not seen anything but a tiny bit of skim ice along the shores. But I've heard old timers say it has frozen over quite a bit in years past. The ditches along the road we live on are full of water because the lake is still so high, and they've been freezing and thawing for a while now.

Our first winter down here was mint! It was 50-60 and sunny about 95% of the winter. Wonderful weather, especially after spending the 35 previous winters in MN. Can someone tell me what I can do to get Global Warming back?

[bobber]

here in the war eagle arm it has!... many times

[Martin]

It's been several years since I've seen ice on Tablerock. It would seem that Beaver would be similar. Many, many years ago, the back end of some of the bigger creek arms froze over (Cow Creek). Thick enough to run a dune buggy on. (lol , yeah, it was crazy). I'm thinking that was in the mid seventies or so.

[jay bird]

About 8-10 years ago we had a really cold winter and I was getting cabin fever really bad. Took my little bass boat down to Big M (Table Rock) just to get out. My boat usally ran about 46-47 MPH on the speedo (before I had a GPS) on that day I was pushing close to 54mph going down the lake (Cold water no humidity) and came around the corner to a frozen part of the lake that almost reached across the whole lake. I really do not think it was that thick, but I sure did not want to hit it going 50.

[taxidermist]

I saw Bull Shoals frozen over at Tucker Hollow one time many many years ago. When before Bernie bought the dock. Even Lead Hill was frozen over.

Dableduck (famous outdoor BSer) went out on some coves Ice fishing.

About 10 years ago white River froze over below Batesville.

But above all else I would not trust the ice.

[Martin]

I got to looking at my previous post and I guess I was mainly talking about substantial ice. The kind you can walk on. It has been a long time since I've seen that, but there have been times since were I've run into a skim of ice.

We put in at Viola and went upstream (on the Kings), and only made it around the first big curve and ran into ice clear across the lake. We broke through slowly for a little while. The ice was about 1/4 " thick. Then it was 3/8" thick. When it got to about 1/2" it was getting scary so we backed out and went downstream to fish.

I'm still talking about the wrong lake. Sorry for that, but I would think Beaver would be similar.

[jeb]

The main lake has no ice on it at all yet in Sunset Bay/Praire Creek. But there is a little thin ice where Prarire Creek is flooded up into the trees. I'm hoping to get the boat out for some fishing this afternoon, but I don't expect to see any ice on the main lake.

[bobber]

at the 412 bridge east of springdale the lake is frozen all the way across on both side as far as you can see!!