I have a question. On Cisco. How would you freeze them and use them for bait? Some people, I have heard, go out a hundred yards or so, drop line and go back to the bank to fish. Do they use the hole fish or just cut bait?
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Here is an old post that talks a little bit about the cisco run.
I like to vacuum pack my cisco. Vacuum packed and frozen cisco lasts lots of years.
As for using them, I use them to tip my tube jigs when vertical jigging for mackinaw at Bear Lake. I am not certain, but I think Bear Lake is the only place you can legally use them for bait. Just a small, 1" x .5" strip of cisco on the hook of a tube jig works pretty good for mackinaw and cuts at BL.
I brought up this very subject to Scott at Bear Lake one day, and he told me that you can use Cisco any way you want to ONLY AT BEAR LAKE. Whole , half whatever works for you.
BTW, can’t wait to get back up there to fish this year.
We havent gone for a few years, but we would use the whole fish. We would take and tie the hook onto an unattached line, then put the end of the line through the eye of a needle. Feed the needle from rear to face and hide one of the hooks from the treble up inside. We would do this with 2 fish at a time. We would then attach one to the end of the line, and one to a swivel. Go out about half as far as your line will let you, then attach the swivel to the line so it slides. Go out the rest of the way and drop the second, then return to shore.