Bear Lake Report 12/2/2003

[fishnate]

I'm no expert but I do have a few years experience catching the bonneville whitefish. From my experience earlier (before 9:00 am) has been faster more productive fishing but I have caught them through the day (never fished late afternoon). When we went last weekend we got a late start and had to drift/troll and we caught plenty of them til 11:30 when we left cuz my kids were cold. We were fishing in 4.5 - 10 ft and caught fish from right under the boat back to about 15 ft. Go after them, they are alot of fun on light tackle. I also suggest using a barbless hook if you want to release them because I've had many swallow my jigs deep. I was using an 1/8 oz. foxy jig tipped with a worm and set the hook immediately and still hooked deep, they hammer it!
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