Launching a boat in central/northern Utah?

[Kent]

I would like to fish from my boat on Friday. I just called The Strawberry Marina and I was told the road is snow packed and "the ramp has a foot of snow on it".

Anyone know the conditions at Pineview, Bear Lake, or anywhere else in central/northern Utah?

Thank you.
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[Old_Coot]

I don't know about the ramp conditions at Bear Lake but if this helps your decission any, the whitefish run is on up there. Way fun and you get to keep 10 for eats.
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[Rom1452]

Did the marina mention anything about the road to the Renegade ramp? Thanks
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[Kent]

No, but if the road is snow packed to The Strawberry Marina you can count on the road to Renegade being even worse. I know this from prior personal experience.
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[Rom1452]

I would think so. Last Friday the road was snow packed but wasn't bad at all. But they've had a bunch of new snow so I guess my pontoon could just slide down the ramp to the water. I was thinking about a Friday or Saturday visit to check it out.
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[up2nogood]

[quote kentofnsl]No, but if the road is snow packed to The Strawberry Marina you can count on the road to Renegade being even worse. I know this from prior personal experience.[/quote]

The road was snow packed a week ago ,but still passable. Should be the same now if it is packed, and not untraveled by the first brave souls . We had no problem getting down to the parking area at Byrant's fork. Several vehicles passed Byrant's fork, and I suspect they were headed to Renegade.

We will give it a try friday or saturday, hopefully we can get in there with the new snow on the ground. Weather looks good .
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[RockyRaab]

Kent, just for you (well, Okay...for my own self, too) I just a drive up to and around Pineview.

The lake is still open, with only a bit of shore ice and skim ice in the very shallow parts of the eastern and northern arms. Port Ramp is still open, but the other two are closed. There wasn't a boat or shore angler anywhere.

Air temp after yesterday's warm front passage was 48° all around the lake. That'll delay ice for a while longer.

(For those of us planning to ice fish it later, that hated additional toll booth to Cemetery Point is gone for the winter.)
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[Kent]

Thanks Rocky[]
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[a_bow_nut]

Deer Creek and Jordanelle are still wide open. Hell it was 41 degrees on the way home from work at 3 AM.
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[Lundman]

Starvation looks to be clear and you can check out the Soldier Creek Side of Strawberry on the way - you can also keep of few of those Starvation Steelhead.
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[FishMcFisherson]

It was about 60 degrees in the valley today. You could probably comfortably water ski on Utah Lake...
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[SkunkedAgain]

Ralph, have they started running already? Mike was out after them today and said he didn't catch any of them, but did get trout. Later J
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[Old_Coot]

Yes, I got word that they are in fact on. A little early this year.
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[gmwahl]

If I were gonna fish in a boat on Friday I would definitely hit bear lake. The whitefish spawn is on and the ramps are clear and easy access. Fish first thing in the morning and use small 1/16 or 1/8 ounce curly tail jigs tipped with a small piece of crawler. 5-10 feet deep and fish either directly below the boat or cast toward shore and slowly twitch it back along the bottom. Right off the marina rocks or right off Cisco boat launch are good spots and will produce fish for you. I didn't catch any yesterday when I was fishing for them but others did. I was too busy working on my boat to really fish properly for them and just dangled a worm on the bottom while I was busy. The cutts and lakers are in fairly shallow following the whitefish and will hit all day trolling in fairly shallow. You will also most likely catch trout while jigging for whitefish. Hope that helps a bit.
My wife is the office manager at the marina and told me that they keep te ramp plowed and clear as long as there water open enough to launch, but right now the ramp is totally dry.
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[SkunkedAgain]

Thanks Ralph, now I'm in a tight spot, got company and a sick boat so I might not make it for the early good stuff. Thank you for the intell. J
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[RBF]

East Canyon is wide open, the courtesy dock is still in, and the landing is bone dry except for some snow on the edges. The fishing is slow by EC standards but I still managed a land a few today. Ice-over at EC is not imminent. The surface temp was in the low 40s today. I might go back tomorrow, or may go to Bear Lake if I can get myself moving early enough.
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[Kent]

Thank you to everyone for your suggestions on where to fish. Ended up fishing Bear Lake. Caught some whitefish, cutthroats and macks.
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[gmwahl]

Good on ya. How well did you do for the whitefish?
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[Kent]

We caught several but the constant hard wind made it difficult to fish with light jigs. My first whitefish was an almost 11 pound mack caught on one of TubeDude's ice flies. That was a nice surprise. We caught another mack and several decent cutthroats. Not used to catching macks in shallow water at Bear Lake.
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