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Garrett Ostler Reports on Hebgen Lake Ice Conditions

The Ice on Hebgen is fantastic this year. Up around the Narrows Area. Ice thickness is anywhere from 8 to 11 inches with this recent storm that brought snow. It certainly created some challenges soaking up some of the water and creating a little bit of slush as you can see in the photos. Today…

The Ice on Hebgen is fantastic this year. Up around the Narrows Area.

Ice thickness is anywhere from 8 to 11 inches with this recent storm that brought snow.

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It certainly created some challenges soaking up some of the water and creating a little bit of slush as you can see in the photos.

Today down at the dam, 6″ of solid ice and 2″ of slush due to yesterday’s snow fall.

A few days ago:

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This is all in advance of the fishing tournament on January 11th on Hebgen Lake.


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