01-21-2012, 09:41 PM
[font "Comic Sans MS"][#000080][size 4]Bait_Caster, Jig_Jrk, and I shot up to Bear Lake early this morning for some cisco. When I left my home in Clinton, the wind was 55 degrees and really blowing. But that is pretty much what we figured it would be. I had to keep the truck in four wheel dirve to get safley over the summit. We arrived at the marina to do two things; 1) check the flag to see how hard and which way the wind was blowing and 2) to use the warm restrooms to change into our waders.
To our surprise, the wind wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be but still bad enough to help us decide to set up our dip net operation out of the wind down in the rocky channel right there at the main marina. That worked pretty good. At first, I caught about 5 or so and then BC caught about that many. It was seeming kind of slow because another guy came down and got his 30 in about 10 minutes and left. As soon as he left, we took his spot and had our 90 about 20 minutes after that. It was still dark outside.
After bagging our 90 cisco (18 baggies of 5 cisco each), we drove back around to the restrooms, changed back into our street clothes, and headed home to vacuum pack our loot. We were headed down the road for home by 7:30! That was truly a “turn-n-burn” trip.
At BC’s home, we broke out two vacuum packers and set up a packing assembly line. All three of us now have our Bear Lake mackinaw bait for the rest of the year. In fact, since I fish Bear Lake so seldom anymore, I highly doubt that I will ever come anywhere close to using my 30 before next year’s run.
How was the wind, waves, and catching over on the east side by Cisco beach … anyone?
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To our surprise, the wind wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be but still bad enough to help us decide to set up our dip net operation out of the wind down in the rocky channel right there at the main marina. That worked pretty good. At first, I caught about 5 or so and then BC caught about that many. It was seeming kind of slow because another guy came down and got his 30 in about 10 minutes and left. As soon as he left, we took his spot and had our 90 about 20 minutes after that. It was still dark outside.
After bagging our 90 cisco (18 baggies of 5 cisco each), we drove back around to the restrooms, changed back into our street clothes, and headed home to vacuum pack our loot. We were headed down the road for home by 7:30! That was truly a “turn-n-burn” trip.
At BC’s home, we broke out two vacuum packers and set up a packing assembly line. All three of us now have our Bear Lake mackinaw bait for the rest of the year. In fact, since I fish Bear Lake so seldom anymore, I highly doubt that I will ever come anywhere close to using my 30 before next year’s run.
How was the wind, waves, and catching over on the east side by Cisco beach … anyone?
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