Hooked up with Fishingwaters and Rileyfish to fish the bear today. started out catching are cisco and the eating them at the disco. Bearlakefishguy thanks you cook a mean cisco. then hooked up with blm and fish1on and fished 1st point the bite was slow i did manage one small cutt so we moved over to the west side where bearlakefishguy joined us and blm caught a nice mack. wasnt steller fishing but was in great company and had a good time. roads on the way home where bad and had several spinnoffs happen right infront of us on the freeway. oh almost forgot ice was 3in thick
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Thanks for the report Jason, glad you made it home safely.
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Good Times. Cisco fishing was fast and furious. Eatin them was fast and Furious. Hats of to Scott and Jim Stone and the rest of the Tolentinos. Great job once again.
YEs roads were bad. I was driving and petty wa screamin like a little girl. Thanks to all. it was fun.
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YEs roads were bad. I was driving and petty wa screamin like a little girl. Thanks to all. it was fun. [/reply]
Hope you got the crap cleaned out of your shorts after that crack in the ice went between your legs
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[unsure] Brotha I just threw them away! they were not worth salvaging. Talk about screamin like a girl!
I hope Fishing waters can post a picture of that.
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We were out just past the old rockpile. Fishing was dead for us. Some guys just out from us got 5-6 really nice macks. I would guess the biggest we about 10lbs. It was touching the ice and came up to his waist. I had 2 hits, and that was it for our group. I don't know what is the problem, I could get them to come up and look at my jig, sometimes follow it but nothing would take it. The cisco we were tipping with was 2 years old, so maybe that was a problem. On the way out we hit the pile to try for some whites, but got the skunk on that as well. All we managed to get were a bunch of cisco for the next trip out. Ice ranged from 5-6" and there were a few places with some broken up ice that had refroze. Lots of sleds and wheelers out there as well.
My score so far Macks: 50+, me: 1.
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Hit the Bear today aswell. Went out to The Rockpile in the thick of the crowd. Everyone seemed to be snagging up cisco pretty fast in 37 feet of water then heading out to deeper water once they got their limit. I put down the aqua cam, and for the entire time spent fishing there was never a moment I noticed that the cisco weren't swimming by quick and very thick. The ice was alive itself, moaning and cracking and even shaking threw out the day. A very nice long split in the ice happened sometime dureing the period we were fishing and made some parts of the ice pretty unsafe on the way back in. I put my auger in the water to show how far of a split it really was.
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We had alot of the same thing. They would swim up, Sniff it and leave.
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Did you guys hear me call out on the radio? I think maybe my radio is messed up. I had it on 16-0 and I was monitoring in the meantime but it was quiet all day.
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I can't believe we missed you in the red suit[
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[unsure] did not turn the radio on today. I think next year if it frezzes over again , We just all need to plan on meeting there at a sertain time and jst do a little bft dip net session
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I had a great time on the ice thank for letting me tag along with you guy. Thanks Mark for getting us home without being hit while all the other cars were playing bumper car.
I’ve attach the picture of the crack where RILEYFISH was sitting when the ice cracked four different ways under his bucket. The ice was only three to four inches thick. Use caution if you choose to look at the other picture it was taken when we got back up to the truck parked by the restroom.
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Mark you should look in to purchasing some of this.
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]Too funny. I stepped on one of the sections where it cracked. Mark wasn't kidding. When you stepped on it, it would sink! The ice was barely 3" thick off 1st point and you could feel it moving and swaying under you when those big cracks let loose![/size][/black][/font]
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I fished out from the Rock Pile as well and only managed 4 bites the whole day. Two long line releases and one small cutt were all that I could manage. I saw at least two fish caught and kept that were probably over 10 pounds (both macs).
I want to add my word of caution, especially since there is probably some snow on the ice now. When I was walking back in last night I was one of the last ones off the ice. I was following the trail where all of the 4 wheelers had been and where everyone else had walked. I came to one of those places where there were several fractures in many directions, and when I stepped on a large chunk it broke off. Luckily it held my weight just long enough for me to step off and onto solid ice again, but when I looked back it had turned sideways and was bobbing in the water. I think I need some of that skid mark remover myself! Every where I drilled a hole yesterday the ice was never more than 4 - 5 inches and there are a lot of cracks and fractures. If you ask me, those guys out there on 4 wheelers and sleds were nuts! There were 4 wheeler track right through the center of the big chunk that broke off when I stepped on it.
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Crazy indeed! Sometimes the only lesson learned can be a hard lesson. Let's hope nobody losses their machines, or even more importantly, their life.
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we took blm's machines out on the west side and it was safe.
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My dad and I fished in front of the marina. It was a lot thicker than on the east side but there was a ton for rumbling going on. Out further you could see where the ice was buckling. I don't trust that lake and to think my Grandpa used to drive his car out there back in the day. I could see many spots where the methane or bubblings were.
Anyway we fished there for a few hours and did not get a bite and we did not see anyone else around catching anything either. Slow day out on the ice by the marina.
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[cool]I hear ya on that Grandpa driving the car out on Bear Lake. Back in the day (1800's) I know that the pioneers used to cross the middle of the lake with their horse's and buggies. I was up there for a family reunion a couple years back and decided to take a tour of the tabernacle in a little town up there (I think it was called Harrisville or Haris or something like that, anyway, they said that the pioneers built that thing hauled lumber across that lake by horses to build it. The ice in the winter actually sped up the process 'cause then they didn't have to go clear around the lake to bring the lumber involved...
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Paris is the name. I live there.They hauled the limestone used to make the tabernacle from the east side across the lake.
Bodine
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