Bear Lake report and conditions(updated)

[fish1on]

Got here yesterday morning and fished with the wife for a couple hours off the marina breakwater. NADA, zip, not even a bite.

Got up early saturday morning to a couple inches of snow and cold. Fished the south breakwater this time and caught two very nice native cutts and one nasty sucker. Back started to ache so I called it a morning. I may go back out after some food and nap, weather looks like it may break and turn nice.

Fished white, green, and black curly tail grubs right on the bottom with a slow retrieve, rest on bottom, and an occasional twitch.

Decided to hit cisco for a couple hours in the afternoon. Sun was out and all was calm for the first 1/2 hour and Wham the "W" came in and made it horrible. Met "pacscrumhalf" at the boat launch, good to meet ya Jeff. I also ran into "bearlakefishguy" and one of his friends. Scott and his buddy launched and commenced to slay the whites just as the wind was coming up, man oh man Scott sure can catch them. Rough water forced them off the water but they did manage to get a few in the boat. I managed to get one white to take home for my favorite breakfast, the wind made it hard to stay in the strike zone fishing from shore.

Might take the boat out tommorow if the weather stay's calm and try some trolling for a couple hours.
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[Theekillerbee]

Silly Pat, don't you know you are not supposed to hurt your back!

Thanks for the update.
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[wiperhunter2]

Thanks for the update Pat, I wonder was is up with the whitefish this year, sounds slow. Of course BLFG is doing good as usual but fishing from a boat always help. Hope you able to get out today.
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[BearLakeFishGuy]

Got up at 6:30am on Saturday morning to snow. I wanted to go fishing, but didn't want to get snowed on. So I waited around and ended up going to the Garden City Christmas party at 11:00am. I told Santa what I wanted and then found a fishing partner and when we got home we loaded up the boat and headed over to Cisco Beach, conditions were perfect (nice calm and partly sunny). We launched around 1:15pm and by, oh around, 1:16pm (yeah about a minute, on the first cast) I had our first whitefish in the boat (a nice 2.7lb specimen!). About 1:25pm it started to blow first from the south and then from the southwest. By 2:00pm we were ready to go since jigging 1/8 oz. jigs in 15mph wind is almost impossible! We ended up with 12 whitefish for our effort. Loading the boat was a circus, but with a little help from Fish1On and my fishing partner we did it. Boat on the trailer at a 45 degree angle, pulled out boat, man-handled the boat on straight.....no problem!

Anyway, the whitefish are really getting going and this week they will peak. You can catch them from shore, but a boat makes things easier. As I suspected the whitefish are much thicker over at Cisco Beach as compared to the Utah State Park marina due to lower water this fall. Simply put the water off the state park marina is low enough that there just ain't that many rocks in the water at the marina to attract the sheer number of whitefish that Cisco Beach has this year. Anyway, thats my report to update the conditions at Bear Lake.
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[pacscrumhalf]

Okay,

Made my first trip out to Bear Lake for the whites and got skunked. Tried the marina first and got nothing in about an hour and a half. Then tried Cisco Beach with the same result. I spent more time retying jigs than actually fishing, so that might have been a factor.

On the way out, I met fish1on-a pleasure to meet you Pat, and thanks for the advice on fishing the Bear. It is nice to put faces with names.

I think I will call it a season for Bear Lake, the drive up from Heber is a little long. Maybe next year.
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