Was by both Rt 18 and Rt 846 today. All ice is gone, but with the rain Sunday, the water has a muddy look to it. The swim beach area is open, and saw a couple cars parked on West Lake road, and making the trek back to the celery farm area to fish, and saw some others fishing else where. Water is still below summer fill. There will be no trout fishing below the dam, because of the PCB levels in it. They will be stocking trout, between Hamburg Bridge, and Big Bend this year instead. The problem I see, is that a lot of this area is deeper water, and as far as wearing waders to fish it, some might be taking their life in their own hands. Have canoed and taken my boat up into this area from the lake before. Also, fishermen will be hard pressed to fish from the bank, as there isn't a lot of area to do that either, unless they have went thru and cleaned the bank areas out. Comments welcome.