Cisco spawn

[BearLakeFishGuy]

I was at Cisco Beach at 7:00am this morning (Tuesday).  There were about 5 other people there too.  I saw one guy dip 2 cisco and talked to another guy who said they dipped a few on Monday morning.  The fish are very skiddish and there were quite a bit of waves/wind this morning.  We saw several cisco but were unable to dipnet any since it was very difficult to see with the waves.  Stayed there until 9:10am and gave up.  My friends launched at First Point and attempted to get to the rockpile.  They said it was locked up and could only reach 87' of water before they gave up.  We are going to try jigging from a boat tomorrow (Wednesday) but we will likely be limited to Cisco Beach.  It was 20F this morning, so not nearly cold enough to freeze things up.  Looks like this coming weekend will be open water.  If the weather is calm any morning this week the Cisco should be plentiful enough to dipnet off Cisco Beach.  If anyone can get to the rockpile I'm sure they could easily jig up limits, but the ice is too much for boats and not safe enough to stand on.  The success is going to be 100% weather dependent. The fish are there, but it will need to get calmer so they come closer to shore.  It calmed down today but not until about 9:30.  Not sure how the dipnetters did after we left today.  The one angler I spoke to said they did pretty good from about 8:30am to 10:00 on Monday and even dipnetted a few on Sunday.  Good luck to everyone.  We will be at Cisco Beach on Saturday morning at daybreak to cook scones and fries.  Not sure if we will get any Cisco due to the conditions, but I will keep trying the rest of the week.