Bear lake boat fishing

[hookjaw2009]

Anyone willing to help a bear lake first timer? I have never been but tossing around the idea of heading up on Saturday.I have seen a little bit about it and it looks like a great fishery. If you would like you could pm me, not sure where to launch or where to start so any info would be great. Thanks and happy fishin.
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[Kent]

What are you hoping to catch and how do you plan on fishing? Also, what size of boat?
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[hookjaw2009]

I have a 19 ft boat set up with down riggers so I could troll or jig, I would like to catch the lakers and cutts.
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[hookjaw2009]

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[Kent]

I can't help you with trolling, but I have managed to catch a few jigging large tube jigs tipped with cisco. I most often jig just north or north east of the Rock Pile (I could provide you with some GPS coordinates for the Rock Pile, if you need them) in water from about 50' to 90' deep. Last Saturday I watched a guy catch a couple nice fish vertically jigging with white tube jigs not much larger than what I typically use at Strawberry.

Hopefully, some others who are able to fish Bear Lake far more often than I do will offer some advice. BTW - I would launch from the Utah State Park.
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[hookjaw2009]

Hey thanks for the info kent.
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[CVfisher]

PM sent
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[SkunkedAgain]

I'm surprised the usual Bear Lake crew hasn't assisted... Anyway two areas are good to start, Rock Pile as mentioned and also off Cisco Beach on the east side. You can launch at first point or rainbow cove, I think, not sure on that big of boat, you may have to hit the marina and cruise across the lake, but it's a long ways... Fish have been gorging on ciscos so everyone expects they will shut down soon and the fishing will get slow... Anyway the fish will be hanging off where the cisco have been spawning and so trolling that edge will give you a good chance of hooking up... Use your graphs to find the depth where the fish are hanging and then drop a line past their noses and see if they're hungry... Good luck... J
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[gmwahl]

Skunkedagain nailed it right on the head. Fish just off Cisco beach or just sixth of first point in 30-60' feet and use your electronics to pinpoint them. Also, jig for ciscos right on the rockpile (jig a 1/2-1 ounce castmaster right on the bottom to 12" off the bottom) and catch your limit of ciscos then move off of the rockpile to the north and east of it in 50-90 feet and troll right on the bottom with minnow baits or jig with a 4" whit tube tipped with a bit of Cisco.
Finding fish on the fish finder in those spots won't be hard, but getting the fish to bite after a couple weeks of eating ciscos won't be quite as easy, but some should still hit your offering.
If fishing the rockpile I would launch at the marina, if fishing the east side, then Cisco beach or first point boat ramps would be my choice.
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[ekimjack]

tell me about the cisco beach boat ramp. Its kind of a rough one isn't it?
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[hookjaw2009]

Appreciate those of you that have given advice I will post on how it turned out when I make it up there, thanks again
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[gmwahl]

It's a little rough, but a 19' boat should be fine.
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