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[font "Arial Black"][red][size 2] I am wondering about some baits to use at Bear Lake. I hear that you can use Sucker meat just like Cisco, also I was reading that you can use something called a Sculpin.What is that and where do I get some? Is this something I can buy or do I have to catch my own? I just want to be prepared with a small arsenal when I get ready to go there.[/size][/red][/font]
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Dan, the guy as Pugstone's in Garden City could tell you and I know they have sucker meat you can buy. I would take a frozen piece of sucker meat and cut most of the flesh off and leave the skin and a thin piece of meat. Remove the scales, cut it in a chunk about an inch square, either fold it an hook it on or just hook it on.
The Sculpin are what I would call bullheads. They are only about 5-6" long on average. I don't know if Pugstones has them are not. I can't remember who, but someone posted a way to catch them in the Logan River. I think they said to get a window screen and put it in the river, then have someone get upstream from you and turn over the rocks and boulder. They will swim down stream into the screen an you can catch them. Be careful because they have stingers like a catfish does.
Hope you have a great trip.
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Make sure you kill them if you get them out of the Logan River as it is illegal to transport live fish. Just a heads up.
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I have caught them in the ogden river on a little wax worm, as well as the weber, and provo. they work awsome for brown trout. never found a bait better for brown trout. i just use a large scrren lik those guys do, lift rocks and lift, works awsome.
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I just need to make a few important comments. Sculpin are definitely fish. They need to be killed before transporting them. However, it is not wise to move fish from one drainage to another. Logan River has whirling disease, Bear Lake does not. It is possible to move the spores from the Logan River to Bear Lake which could introduce whirling disease to this pristine water. There is a whole lot more information on whirling disease in the 2004 Fishing Proclamation on Page 22 "What You Can Do To Reduce the Spread Of Whirlling Disease". Please read it! Hope this helps. Finally, as others have mentioned, cisco is the bait of choice on Bear Lake so you'll be set with them! Good Luck.
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[unsure][unsure][font "Arial Black"][red][size 2] Wow , Hey all I didn't mean to start WW3 here, I just wanted to find out about some fishing bait. I'm sorry about all of this. But on the other hand, Great job to BLM we don't need arguing and bickering over a simple mistake or choice of words. [/size][/red][/font]
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ok i hate to bring this back to the top but that picture of a mottled sculpin looks like a light color plecosulums that you buy in the pet store for $3-5 bucks, do you know if they are related? cuz if so i could have sabved some $ if i had known this
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That is a most excilent idea, you may want to go even one further and that is to cure them as well, (dry them in a pickling salt brine to kill off any sherling spores or other parisites that they may be infested with.
Here in michigan we learned the hard way.
we now have [size 1]Sculpin[/size] inhabiting our waters as well (we are asked to not return them to the water when caught) they dont belong here. we also have other species here that dont belong here like zebra mussles. Gobie, and shake heads coming up.
the zebra mussles came from russa transplanted by freighters who dumped thier balast waters in the great lakes. now because of lack of information and anglers catching walleye from the great lakes and taking them to thier home lakes now thousands of inland lakes are infested with zebra mussles (litterly hundreds of miles inland from the great lakes.
Bigfishrule thanks for making that point...
some states have realy strict laws about transplsnting fish form one pond to another. I know one state will fine you a concerdable amount of pocket change just for carying a live fish in your live well on the way home... (Tennesee) reasoning they dont want you to have an axident near a dranige ditch that runs in to a creek tha runs in to a stream that runs in to a river that runs in to a lake where your fish could axidently be released in to any foren body of water.....
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