Bonneville WF - finally got 'em!

[BearLakeFishGuy]

Well the Bonneville WF at Bear Lake have been a tough nut to crack this year.  Not the fish's fault though.  We tried last Tuesday and caught one CT, one WF, and one Laker.  Just a wee bit early.  Then the weather turned to CRAP up in Cache Valley/Bear Lake.  Wind, snow, sleet, unfishable for the most part.  I tried to go Thursday but we had 6" of snow in Cache Valley and there was about 3' or more in Logan Canyon.  NO GO.  I left the boat hooked up to try again on Friday morning last week (12/8) but my local-yocal called me at 0530 and said they had 2-3' waves and a north wind.  NO GO again.  So I left the boat hooked up to try again on Saturday but I started feeling crappy on Friday night so I cancelled Saturday due to the crud.  Sunday I went to the nutcracker in SLC (I thought it might be WWE wrestling with a name like that, but it was a ballet.  Actually, not too shabby).  I still felt crappy on Monday so another NO GO.  Tuesday, my friend could not make it.....Another NO GO.  But today the stars aligned, and the Fish Gods felt that I paid my dues......

So we headed out about 0630 from Cache Valley and were fishing by 0730.  The first WF was landed about 10 min later.  We (two of us) limited on WF by noon and had a couple of CT to boot.  Then we tried jigging for CT and Lakers on the rockpile.  Notta.  Moved to the front of the State Park marina and completed our limit of CT.  Called it a day about 12:45.  

Tomorrow the Camp Chef Smoke Vault will be rolling with an annual load of WF and CT.  No lakers were harmed today!  The females were running ripe with eggs, so the run is peaking.  Should last another week if the weather will let us fish.