03-05-2008, 09:11 PM
From the UDWR "hotspots" webpage:
Don't put away that ice fishing gear yet, we've got a LONG way to go! Bear Lake Report for Wednesday, March 5, 2008. Bear Lake is frozen with ice thicknesses ranging 12-15" and a couple of inches of snow on top of the ice. Nightime temperatures have been near zero degrees every night for the past two weeks and daytime highs are not reaching freezing, so the ice continues to get thicker!!! Ice anglers are catching whitefish right on top of the rockpile off Ideal Beach and off the weedbeds south of Gus Rich Point and between First and Second Points using small jigs or small castmasters tipped with meal worms and salmon eggs. Lake trout and cutthroat action have been fair just about anywhere on the lake in waters from 30-80 feet deep using tube jigs tipped with cisco. For real-time weather (wind speed, water temp, air temp, lake elevation) see the following link:
[url "http://www.bearlakewatch.com/NewPages/Newlakelevel2.htm"]http://www.bearlakewatch.com/NewPages/Newlakelevel2.htm[/url]
If you want to see what the actual weather conditions and ice conditions in the marina are in real-time, you can click on the link to the Utah Lake View cams and then click on Bear Lake. [url "http://www.utahlakeview.com"]http://www.utahlakeview.com[/url] Fishing regulation changes for 2008 include recognizing both Utah and Idaho licenses and the respective state's second pole permits on either side of the lake. What this means is that either a Utah or Idaho license holder can fish on either side of the lake. In addition if an angler also has purchased a second pole permit (two pole permit) then you can fish with two poles on either side of the state line too.
For those interested the GPS coordinates for the new rockpiles using WGS84 datum going from south to north are:
41 degrees 58.097 minutes;
111 degrees 23.682 minutes;
41 degrees 58.187 minutes;
111 degrees 23.728 minutes;
41 degrees 58.292 minutes;
111 degrees 23.765 minutes;
41 degrees 58.418 minutes;
111 degrees 23.798 minutes;
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Don't put away that ice fishing gear yet, we've got a LONG way to go! Bear Lake Report for Wednesday, March 5, 2008. Bear Lake is frozen with ice thicknesses ranging 12-15" and a couple of inches of snow on top of the ice. Nightime temperatures have been near zero degrees every night for the past two weeks and daytime highs are not reaching freezing, so the ice continues to get thicker!!! Ice anglers are catching whitefish right on top of the rockpile off Ideal Beach and off the weedbeds south of Gus Rich Point and between First and Second Points using small jigs or small castmasters tipped with meal worms and salmon eggs. Lake trout and cutthroat action have been fair just about anywhere on the lake in waters from 30-80 feet deep using tube jigs tipped with cisco. For real-time weather (wind speed, water temp, air temp, lake elevation) see the following link:
[url "http://www.bearlakewatch.com/NewPages/Newlakelevel2.htm"]http://www.bearlakewatch.com/NewPages/Newlakelevel2.htm[/url]
If you want to see what the actual weather conditions and ice conditions in the marina are in real-time, you can click on the link to the Utah Lake View cams and then click on Bear Lake. [url "http://www.utahlakeview.com"]http://www.utahlakeview.com[/url] Fishing regulation changes for 2008 include recognizing both Utah and Idaho licenses and the respective state's second pole permits on either side of the lake. What this means is that either a Utah or Idaho license holder can fish on either side of the lake. In addition if an angler also has purchased a second pole permit (two pole permit) then you can fish with two poles on either side of the state line too.
For those interested the GPS coordinates for the new rockpiles using WGS84 datum going from south to north are:
41 degrees 58.097 minutes;
111 degrees 23.682 minutes;
41 degrees 58.187 minutes;
111 degrees 23.728 minutes;
41 degrees 58.292 minutes;
111 degrees 23.765 minutes;
41 degrees 58.418 minutes;
111 degrees 23.798 minutes;
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