Bear Lake - Tues 2/7/23

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Do people catch cisco on hook and line? If so, how, and when?

I know guys who catch them on small flies and jigs when they are cruising in shallow.  Not sure whether they strike out of hunger, anger, lust or curiosity. 


I have caught a grundle of cisco under the ice...on the rock pile...fishing a white jigging spoon with red treble hooks.  It was a fun discovery to drop that down, place the rod in a holder and watch the rod tip vibrating as the cisco swarmed around the lure and attacking it.  It was usually only a short time until one of them either got one of the treble hook points in its mouth...or got itself snagged by rolling up against the hook just right.  Here is a picture.  Made up several different sizes and colors...all with red trebles...and most of them worked.  I think the red treble is the main attractant.


Another picture of an "experimental" cisco jigging spoon I made for another guy who theorized that the ciscos swarmed lures that resembled ciscos in an effort to stimulate them to spawn.  Turned out to be another one of those great idea lures that looked better to the fisherman than to the fish.