12-07-2011, 02:20 AM
[font "Comic Sans MS"][#000080][size 4]Or at least for me and Bait_Caster today.
BC and I decided to make a run to Bear Lake today and fish for some whitefish. I was pretty excited about smoking some again this year. Going up through Logan Canyon was an easy drive but COLD. Going through the Peter Sinks my truck's thermometer registered 23 degrees BELOW zero! When we got to the east side of Bear Lake, the temp was about 5 above … much warmer.
The ramp at first point was easy to launch from. And the parks guys have left a dock out to use … very helpful and appreciated.
We fished First Point … no whites. We fished Second Point … no whites. We fished the Boy Scout Camp area … no whites. Now, I know that BLFG said that we might need to fish in “slightly different spots” than when the water is low but hey, that’s a pretty big lake and I didn’t know where else to try. So, if anyone reading this would like to divulge where the whites are this year, maybe others could take advantage of that. My only advice is to NOT fish 1st point, 2nd point, or the Boy Scout area.
Since we were smelling the big skunk, we decided to go deep and try for some macks. Our luck was holding strong … no macks all day either. But I did finally score a snagged sucker. We quickly cut him up into pieces to tip our jigs with. That did the trick. We finally boated a few decent fish. Here are a couple of them:
My 24 inch cut:
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#000080][size 4]BC's nice 27”, 6 lb. 5 oz. cut:
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#000080][size 4]It was a tagged so I thought that it was not a native but then, since it had all of its fins intact, maybe it WAS a native. Hell, I don’t know. All I do know is that it sure put a
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We took the tag and released her.[/size][/#000080][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#000080][size 4]It was nice to get back out on the beautiful blue water of Bear Lake. I'ts been about a year since we fished it.[/size][/#000080][/font]
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BC and I decided to make a run to Bear Lake today and fish for some whitefish. I was pretty excited about smoking some again this year. Going up through Logan Canyon was an easy drive but COLD. Going through the Peter Sinks my truck's thermometer registered 23 degrees BELOW zero! When we got to the east side of Bear Lake, the temp was about 5 above … much warmer.
The ramp at first point was easy to launch from. And the parks guys have left a dock out to use … very helpful and appreciated.
We fished First Point … no whites. We fished Second Point … no whites. We fished the Boy Scout Camp area … no whites. Now, I know that BLFG said that we might need to fish in “slightly different spots” than when the water is low but hey, that’s a pretty big lake and I didn’t know where else to try. So, if anyone reading this would like to divulge where the whites are this year, maybe others could take advantage of that. My only advice is to NOT fish 1st point, 2nd point, or the Boy Scout area.
Since we were smelling the big skunk, we decided to go deep and try for some macks. Our luck was holding strong … no macks all day either. But I did finally score a snagged sucker. We quickly cut him up into pieces to tip our jigs with. That did the trick. We finally boated a few decent fish. Here are a couple of them:
My 24 inch cut:
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#000080][size 4]BC's nice 27”, 6 lb. 5 oz. cut:
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#000080][size 4][/size][/#000080][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][#000080][size 4][inline 27-inches.gif][/size][/#000080][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][#000080][size 4]It was a tagged so I thought that it was not a native but then, since it had all of its fins intact, maybe it WAS a native. Hell, I don’t know. All I do know is that it sure put a
on BC’s face.[/size][/#000080][/font] [font "Comic Sans MS"][#000080][size 4][/size][/#000080][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][#000080][size 4][inline Tagged.gif]
We took the tag and released her.[/size][/#000080][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#000080][size 4]It was nice to get back out on the beautiful blue water of Bear Lake. I'ts been about a year since we fished it.[/size][/#000080][/font]
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