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Bear Lake Report and Conditions 1/18/2011 - BearLakeFishGuy - 01-18-2011
After a very warm weekend with high winds the last two days, there is no longer any ice on Bear Lake. In fact the Utah State Park Marina has thawed and boats can now be launched at the marina, First Point ramp and Cisco Beach ramp. There is no snow along the east side at this time. The courtesy docks have been removed at First Point and Cisco Beach due to icing problems on the docks.
Anglers (both boat and shore) have been doing excellent for cutthroat trout and a few lake trout. Best luck has been off 2nd Point jigging and off South Eden jigging and trolling. Try depths of 40-70 feet. Use 3/4 -1 ounce jigs tipped with cisco, sucker or carp meat when jigging. The trollers are using downriggers and doing well using small flatfish and rapala-style lures with rattles in them. You can fish from shore at the Utah State Park marina and anglers are picking up a few rainbow and cutthroat trout. Try powerbait or mealworms under a bobber or spoons and spinners casted from shore. There is currently about 6”” of snow along the west side of the lake.
No cisco have showed up along the shorelines at Cisco Beach or the marina as of today, but anglers fishing from boats have been able to snag limits of cisco off the “rockpile” area the last two days. They are also catching some nice sized cutthroat, some over 6lbs, off the rockpile area using tube jigs tipped with cisco and vertical jigging spoons such as castmasters. Anglers also reported catching some Bonneville whitefish using small vertical jigging spoons and ¼ ounce jig tipped with salmon eggs. Remember, the limit on cisco is 30 fish (daily and possession) so count your fish carefully. Also, remember that a person may not possess a multipoint hook with a weight permanently or rigidly attached directly to the shank (commonly called a snag hook) or a weight suspended below a multipoint hook unless the hook is on an unweighted dropper line that is at least three inches long.
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Re: [BearLakeFishGuy] Bear Lake Report and Conditions 1/18/2011 - fish_fear_me2 - 01-18-2011
Thanks for the update... Another year in waders.
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Re: [BearLakeFishGuy] Bear Lake Report and Conditions 1/18/2011 - RDRRM8E - 01-18-2011
Sweet! I figured with this warm trend, launching would be an option for this weekend. Guess my plans are set for this weekend. Screw those pan fish! LOL! I'll bet you could get a limit of cisco off the pile right now.
Thanks for the update, Scott!
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Re: [RDRRM8E] Bear Lake Report and Conditions 1/18/2011 - BearLakeFishGuy - 01-19-2011
I wanted to update the launching conditons at the marina. I guess one of the de-icers went down and now the marina is frozen again. So you CANNOT launch at the marina as of today, Wednesday 1/19. First Point and Cisco Beach are the only options on ramps until further notice.
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Re: [BearLakeFishGuy] Bear Lake Report and Conditions 1/18/2011 - lavaman - 01-19-2011
Is this the 3rd year in a row that The Bear hasn't frozen over? [:/]
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Re: [lavaman] Bear Lake Report and Conditions 1/18/2011 - wiperhunter2 - 01-19-2011
LOL, my party must have been the only ones that was lucky enough to dip our cisco while standing on the ice last year. I remember seeing open water about 100yds from where we were at cisco beach and the ice was no more than 2 inches thick but I'm surprised a few more people did not get their cisco before the ice blew off. It's always fun to dip cisco when you can see them swiming below the ice you are standing on, cool[cool]!!!
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Re: [wiperhunter2] Bear Lake Report and Conditions 1/18/2011 - BigRiggs - 01-20-2011
ya couple of years ago The ice was 2 to 3 inches thick we dipped our limit and then moved out to try the trout and crack came along the whole side of lake 4 inches of open water between my legs my Brother inlaws Brother was in his new ice tent 10 feet further out than me and we hurried and got across that crack back to terra furma I messed my pants when the ice split open.
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