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What is the best bait for Bear Lake?

Tip your jigs or bait with sucker meat or Gulp minnows in white, green, and chartreuse for best results! Trollers do well using minnow-type lures, rapalas, and flatfish-off downriggers close to the bottom. For Lake Trout fly fishing, aim to visit in the late fall.



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You want to get close enough that you are able to draw some of the trout to your hook, but not so close you get your line caught in the plants. Big Bear Lake has a great deal of stocked fish in it, so Powerbait, worms, or corn are good baits to use.

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Understand the Big Bear Lake fishing limits. For trout, there is no size limit, but you can only catch a maximum of 5. For carp, there is no limit on size or amount. Carp is the only species you can also use a bow and arrow to fish with, as long as the arrow is tethered to the bow.

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Big Bear Lake is open for fishing 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The Lake is regularly stocked with Rainbow Trout, with a limit of 5 per day.

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When consuming fish from Big Bear Lake, women ages 18-45 and children ages 1-17 may safely eat a maximum of five servings per week of crappie or Rainbow Trout, or one serving per week of black bass species or Common Carp.

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Big Bear Lake is a reservoir in the western United States, located in the San Bernardino Mountains in San Bernardino County, California. It is a snow and rain-fed lake, having no other means of tributaries or mechanical replenishment.



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Sturgeon aren't typically found in inland lakes, and what's interesting about the Bear Lake fish is our file shows that back in 1932, three adult sturgeon were transplanted into the lake.

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