River is Ready

[Flatlander]

Made it down to Ft Snelling over the weekend. There were a few boats fishing the confluence Sat., but not much activity Sunday. There are still a few icebergs floating around, but not bad. Water levels are low, so current isn't much of an issue. I'm not much of a photographer-

Finally back on the water

Big ol' icicles

plent of these guys around

looked like someone was living here

[Randyjr.]

beautiful. I can't wait to get out.

[Duffman]

Nice shots, looks like fun. I can't believe how fast the conditions change on the river during this time of year. The MN river was pretty open when I drove over it on 35W last night, and by this morning she was locked up again.

[uppdacreek]

You are right, someone does live in there. It is parked on that stretch of shoreline all year long. I have seen him many times through out the year.

[fishdale]

Regarding the house boat no one lives there anymore. The news a couple of days ago showed that house boat half submerged floating down the river. They had to get a crane to lift it out of the river.

Footage was on KSTP DOT COM IS still there.

Was weird seeing the boat submerged as I saw it from Oct on fishing last year.

Below is that write-up

Abandoned houseboat wrangled on the Mississippi

According to police, no one was inside a houseboat found submerged in the Mississippi River Monday morning.

Authorities were able to get a hold of the boat near the Highway 52 Bridge in St. Paul and tow it to safety.

However, the sight frightened several witnesses, who were unsure if anyone was inside the vessel.

"It's not very typical, but unfortunately it happens occasionally," said Lee Nelson, a tugboat driver who came to help pull the houseboat to shore.

"Now we're going to haul it to our impound lot and impound it as an abandoned piece of property," said Ramsey County Sheriff Sgt. Tony Waldo.

Police say they knew about this boat back in December—it was beached and tied up on Pike Island next to Fort Snelling surrounded in ice.

There was nothing they could do back then, but with the recent warm weather, the abandoned boat broke loose.

"We all spent the better part of two and a half to three to deal with what somebody left. They make it someone else problem and they did," said Nelson.

The Ramsey County Sheriff's Department said they will now track down the owner of the boat to hand them the $2,000 tow bill.

In fact, the owner of the submerged vehicle could face a civil penalty up to five times the cost of the removal since it boat was left in state waters, according to Minnesota law.

[Flatlander]

Someone was still around it this weekend. It may not have been the owner, but there was a mtn. bike leaning against the back of the boat. There were x-c ski tracks right up to the back, and there were a few bags of something hanging off the side wall.

That's pretty amazing that it broke loose and floated down just days after I paddled by it. There was a lot of ice and about 4 ropes tied up to different trees.

[mrfish1991]

yup...i drove over it thismorning and it was all locked up again.

should be free soon with the warm temps coming our way.