Well hello winter!  Downright nasty cold temps here lately has stymied any thoughts of going fishing in my world.  This past week many days the high temps in the interior portions of the Upper Peninsula has been around -5, rather brisk even for the hardiest of yoopers.  Night time temps have dipped down close to -30! Many streams are covered in surface or anchor ice and fishing is fairly futile currently. Some encouraging snows have come to many areas, seems to be very localized with certain areas getting much more snow than others.  Looks like a brief warm up heading our way this weekend and more snow in the forecast. It is refreshing to see some more “normal” type weather and hoping it stays that way for the remainder of this winter.  Below are some images of winter here in the U.P. from this week.