Bear Lake

[Kent]

Ugly weather is an understatement. Left my house at 4:20 AM, started fishing just before noon! First Logan canyon was closed. Took the northern route to Bear Lake. Everything was fine until we actually almost reached Bear Lake and was headed to Garden City. It was a white out, and they closed the road just behind us. We finally turned around and stopped and had breakfast. After breakfast, we decided to try the east side of Bear Lake. Fished Cisco Beach, and the weather over there wasn't too bad, but the catching was really poor. Four fishermen, and two small whitefish for our efforts (I fished most of the time for macks, and didn't get a bite). We did get a good laugh however. Two men, in their twenties came dragging a sled out on the ice. They both were pulling on the sled and were just about to us when they started asking how the fishing was. Suddenly, they both stepped on a pressure ridge at the same time, and went in to about the middle of their chests. We tried not laugh, but after they got out quickly we couldn't help laughing. They took their experience good naturedly, and just added it to the disastrous day that they had already experienced (similar to ours, but they also got stuck). Amazingly, they stood and visited with us for five or ten minutes and then turned to head back up to their vehicle. We all watched in astonishment as one of them stepped on the pressure ridge again and fell back into the water! A game warden stopped by a little later and said another man had also fallen through the pressure ridge, just down the lake from us, just a few minutes before he came out and checked us out.
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