Bear lake 10-25-13

[BearLakeFishGuy]

Hey Dan, an interesting note about the first lake trout in your pictures. It is missing a right pelvic fin AND the adipose fin. This indicates it is one of the sterile lake trout that have been planted sometime from 2002 on. If it was 10lbs, it would likely have been a fish from 2002-2003-ish. There is no fin clip regulation on lakers, we just clip them so we can track the survival of the triploid (sterile) fish and also their growth. Glad you made it up. The weather the last week was exceptional for this time of October.

FYI, the lake trout run has peaked and they should be around for another couple of weeks. They will be completely finished spawning by about mid-November. Then the Bonneville whitefish will start right around Thanksgiving.
[signature]