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Show Cisco run on Bear Lake gets slow start The 1964 Cisco run on Bear Lake got off to a slow start as ice break-up and heavy winds coincided with the date that the fish began their annual an-nual spawning run. First fish appeared along the east shore of Bear Lake on Sunday, January 19 but because be-cause of heavy wind and floe ice accumulations almost no fish were taken until the following fol-lowing Wednesday, January 22. With wind down and ice gone, the little fish moved onto on-to the spawning grounds in good number and reports indicated indi-cated some anglers taking fifty fish limits in less than fifteen minutes. Department fisheries biologists biolo-gists estimate that the spawning spawn-ing run has now reached its peak and that fishing for Cisco Cis-co will become poorer each day until the run is completed, probably sometime this coming weekend., This is the fifth year that a special dip netting season has been set on the Bonneville Cisco Cis-co by the Fish and Game Commission Com-mission in order to provide recreational rec-reational opportunity for anglers ang-lers to harvest these little fish. The Cisco is common only to Bear Lake and is seldom taken on hook and line, but becomes vulnerable to dip net fishing during its annual spawning run to the east short shoal areas. The season has proved to be more popular with anglers each year since first opened by the Fish and Game Commission in 1959. Several thousand anglers have made the trip to Bear Lake since the run began last week. Other than for the limited Cisco season of January 1 to February 15, Bear Lake, which splits the Utah-Idaho State line, is one of the many waters open to year round angling, and all kinds of fish may be taken at any season in accordance accord-ance with the annual fishing proclamation. Under an agreement between the two states, a properly licensed li-censed angler from either Utah or Idaho may fish the lake at any time. |