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Topic: 411 on Bear River Reservoir?  (Read 913 times)

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snakecharmer

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Likely going camping here this weekend, for non-fishy reasons, but bringing the yak.

Any recommendations? 

Research so far says it is stocked with rainbows and browns, and there are some macks deep.  I hear this place can be slow...

Also, I read there is the smaller upper reservoir stocked with Kamloops fingerlings, and the non-yak Devil's Lake (1.5 mile hike) that has brookies. 

Fish laugh when I paddle by.  Sometimes they laugh so hard they fall on my hook.


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i think a message to racer414 or kevinsearchoffish would be a good idea.


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Camped up there this past weekend and it was slow from the shore.  Didn't bring the kayak either so I'm afraid to say we were skunked with the exception of 100 or so crayfish.  Had a good  crayfish boil though to make up.  Talked to others who were trolling and no luck either.  You can always go up 88 a touch more and try out Silver Lake if it's too slow. 
The word is that these lakes like Bear were minimally stocked during the last few years of drought.  Trucks couldn't get down to the low waterline.  In order to place the fish somewhere they stocked Kirkwood Lake with the extra.  Might want to give Kirkwood a shot.  Mostly rainbows no macks.

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Thanks for the intel.  I am not surprised.  I'll probably still give it a shot, especially for a deep mack. 

Any news on the upper lake, supposedly those were stocked with fingerlings in years passed???

Or any word on Devil's lake, as a hike in fishery for brook trout?
Fish laugh when I paddle by.  Sometimes they laugh so hard they fall on my hook.