Bear Lake ice fishing report - Monday 1/21/13

[BearLakeFishGuy]

Well I took advantage of a holiday off from work. Temp was +7 at 9am when I started the hike out to the rockpile. Several others were well ahead of me, but not to worry there are pleny of fish for everyone to catch. Ice is not about 4 - 4.5" thick. It grew about 1.5-2" in two days of cold weather. Very foggy once again, but hey, you can breathe this fog. Its not the SMOG down along the front!! I chose to fish deeper, but I could have stopped on the rockpile to jig a limit of cisco. Instead I dropped down a hole, jigged about 3 times and caught one cisco to use for bait. Then it was out to 60' again. I moved several times during the day, but never went deeper than 70'. Caught several nice fish and didn't keep count. I only took a few pics so here they are. They are all still swimming for someone else to catch. I also saw several lake trout caught today, but I did not catch any. Also, I saw a lot of whitefish being caught and a few that were snagged by those jigging for cisco. Make sure to release the foul-hooked whitefish or risk a ticket! Used a jigging spoon and red/white tube jig. Both produced fish. Fished until 1:30 and called it a day. By then the fog was just barely beginning to lift. I saw blue sky all afternoon.
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[BearLakeFishGuy]

Oh, I did check Cisco Beach this morning at 7am. There we no cisco running yet. It is frozen and about 30 people were out on the ice but no one saw any cisco. Any day now and they will show up.
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[wiperhunter2]

Nice report and pics Scott, thanks for sharing it. This is great news for this coming weekend. Hopefully the wind doesn't blow it off.
I tried to get the inline feature to work but no luck, I'll report the problem and see what is going on.
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[fishin_fool26]

Nice fish scary looking ice though, it sounds like the cisco are highly sought after there, are they good eating or just good bait.
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[yotehunter]

I too hit the lake early this afternoon as did LOTS of others. I seen lots of cuts, macks, white fish, and cisco being taken. Fishing seemed to be really good and should maintain for the several days. What a beautiful day it turned out to be, the weekend should be awesome with the ice getting thicker now the fog has moved out, hopefully for good.
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[wiperhunter2]

You can eat them and use them for bait. This coming Sat there will be what is called the Cisco Disco, if you are interested you can go up there and eat some freshly caught cisco.[]
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[jigs]

Wiper any idea what time to do the plunge?
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[BearLakeFishGuy]

For those interested in the Polar Plunge at Bear Lake:
11-11:45am: Check in and register at the Bear Lake
State Park Marina for the Plunge.
Costumes will be judged.
12pm: Take the PLUNGE!!!

Let me tell you by experience it is over with about 12:10, so don't miss it!
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[Bama_Boy]

I can only get the inline feature to work using the Firefox browser. Might be some help.
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[Jazzperch1]

nice job BLFG those are some really healthy looking cuttys for sure man. looks like fun
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[jigs]

hey BearLake do you know the cost of the plunge?
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[BearLakeFishGuy]

$25. All money goes to Primary Children's Hospital. You do get a free sweatshirt for your donation and of course you might even end up on TV since Channel 2 will be there.
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[CoyoteSpinner]

And I'll bet that toasty sweatshirt will be more valuable that $$ after the plunge!!! [:p][shocked]


Thanks so much for all the updates and reports.
Um, can I say - DROOL!

Looks like some nice fishn, and better catching!


So Skunked - if you're going, lemme know. Maybe I can follow in your snow-steps!