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Monday, February 17, 2014

Report on Cisco Disco

By Scott Tollentino, State Fisheries Biologist & host of the Cisco Disco
 
 
For the Cisco Disco, we had about 215 vehicles and over  750 people come to Cisco Beach on Saturday morning between 5:30 and 10:30 am.  That is not quite as many as last year, but still really good numbers.   Anglers were having great success.  For the 10 dipping nets we loan out, this year was the most they have been used since we purchased them 5 years ago.  Maybe we'll try to find a way to leave them by the Cisco Beach entrance station to be used for the whole run.  We still have not got them all back as Jeremy reported they were still being used consistently yesterday.
 
For the Bear Lake Monster Plunge, it was our best year yet.  We estimate 110 plungers (103 plus we always get a few who bypass the waiver form/registration process).  It looks like we'll have to make  28 more sweatshirts.  This was the first year we have surpassed 75 plungers and we broke 100 - all the better.  We also estimate 250 spectators.  This was awesome, knowing that several locals we attending Becky Green's funeral at the same time.  Our local pharmacist jumped for his 5th year in a row.  Batman's nemesis jumped three times.  As a result of the local involvement prize, Friday, June 20th, 2014 will be free Day Use at the marina and Rendezvous Beach for Montpelier residents because Montpelier was the local valley town with the most registered jumpers. 
 
A big Thank You to: Glenn Gilles for the PA announcing; Mike and Jared Wahlberg for prepping the ice (along with other Garden City fire crew during the event); Robert Chandler and the Bear Lake Yacht Club for the heaters; Alpine Restoration for hot chocolate?; and I know there are others that I just can not remember right now.  We did this for Hope Kids and it was really nice having some of them on site during the event.  At last word given to me, we raised about $2500 for Hope Kids.  Great work everyone!



In looking back 5 years ago when Judy Holbrook asked what we could do to bring more people to Bear Lake in the winter, our goal was to get the folks who came from out of town spend a night or two at the lake and visit some of the restaurants and businesses that are open this time of year.


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