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Bear Lake (Utah), UT
Lake in Rich County, Utah. A striking turquoise natural lake on the Utah-Idaho border near Garden City, roughly 70,000 acres and up to 200 ft deep. Its unique limestone-tinted water hosts four endemic species found nowhere else, including the Bonneville cisco, which spawns in dense January schools that anglers dip-net through the ice. Bear Lake also produces trophy Bonneville cutthroat trout and lake trout. Cold, deep, and clear, it fishes well year-round including a famous winter cisco run.
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What swims here
6 tracked species in Bear Lake (Utah), with the months each fishes best.
Water facts
Utah-side access at Bear Lake State Park Marina (Garden City) and Rendezvous Beach (south shore). No in-lake live USGS gauge; water temperature uses a seasonal baseline reflecting the lake's deep, cold, slow-warming profile. Utah fishing license required; the January Bonneville cisco dip-net season has its own rules.
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