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I am heading up the first week of January to stay near Bear Lake and I was hoping there would be ice to fish on. In the case that there is, I need advice for catching fish in that lake.
Type of lure, type of bait, water depth, depth for lure, preferred locations on the lake, best type of fish to target, (I am not picky, I am hoping to have friends with me, so I just want to pull some fish through the ice).
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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The odds of fishable ice up here on bear lake are low during the first week of January. It has happened, but it's not common. The ice usually forms (if it does freeze) around the third week of January. If we get fishable ice in time for the Cisco run(January 20th or so) then the ice fishing is awesome.
When you come up here, there are other options for ice fishing. Garden city heritage fish pond is actually fun to ice fish on and pretty good. Laketown reservoir is also ok to fish on, but you would need a snow mobile to get to it. Little reek reservoir and birch creek reservoir over by Randolph and woodruff are also really good for ice fishing and are always frozen by Christmas time.
Hope this helps.
Mike
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I hope it freezes again this year, like was mentioned, early January maybe a no go.
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Historically, bear lake freezes over on average 2 out of every 3 years. I'm hopeful that we will see lower temps and get another good freeze over like last season.
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[quote CacheIceMan] Historically, bear lake freezes over on average 2 out of every 3 years. I'm hopeful that we will see lower temps and get another good freeze over like last season.[/quote]
Curious, where you got that info? You could very well be correct but it seems to me its more like once or twice every 10 years. At least for the whole lake, I know the Southern part of the lake and along the shore line freezes just about every year. As I said, you could be correct, I just don't remember it freezing that often.[:/]
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My buddy is the state park manager there. He told me.
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Tube jigs 1/2oz and up. 4" to 6" in length. Color depends on the day. Depth kinda depends on where you go. Do a search on here. There are maps listing all the best locations and depths. It is extremely beneficial to have a decent fish finder to find correct depth and on some days the fish must be "jigged up". Spoons and buck tails work too. You will need sucker or cisco to tip your jigs. Call pugstones and he'll set u up. If u need more help pm me. I'm no expert but I've managed my fair share of 10+lb lakers and a couple cutts outta big blue.
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The last time it totally froze over was in 2012, that year it left a few fishermen stranded when it Fischered apart. It generally freezes fairly well every year on the south end. The main food source for the trout are cisco so go off that for what to use to catch them. Depth varies greatly.
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