Update on Bonneville WF run at Bear Lake-Tuesday 12/3

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It's funny how if you catch WF on the fly in rivers, they're second class citizens, but they're all the rage at Bear Lake during the spawn.

Personally, I'd rather catch them in shorts and a t-shirt and not bundled up like an eskimo.  They are definitely good eats!

The whitefish you catch in rivers are a completely different species...mountain whitefish.  They have smaller mouths and feed mostly on insects.  The larger Bonneville whitefish in Bear Lake get a lot bigger and have bigger mouths.  And once they get over about a foot long they feed heavily on small fish...piscivorous.  

But, ya cain't ketch 'em where they ain't.  And during the warm weather months they are scatttered out in deeper water.  Still some caught by deep jigging, but not like when they swarm in and congregate to spawn in the shallows in "Eskimo" conditions in the winter.