I took a couple of rainy hours and fished Lake Cavanaugh today. There appeared to be 3 other boats fishing but only one other trailer in the parking lot. The other two, I would guess are locals with places on the lake. I did not put any fish in the box but I did have a good few hours of fishing. I started out trolling a number of flies, transitioning to some form of dodger and various flies, then a dodger and wedding band combo. I fished various locations and depths, surface to about 56 feet. The surface temperature was 42.1-42.3 degrees and there was evidence of a recent hatch.

Two things seemed to work, a dark green # 8 Woollybugger about 20” behind a dodger produced two significant take downs with the rigger running at 56’. I lost both before they saw the net. The other successful offering was a long shot but it worked. I removed the hook from a Canadian Wonder spoon. Then tied a # 18 pink scud about 16” behind the CW spoon. This offering produced consistent action for small kokanee when run 50-60 feet behind the release clip and the rigger at 8-12’ down. The kokanee were 6-8” and all returned to the lake unharmed.

The Quadfather

2/7/2010 9:47:00 PM

Nice to see the Cav. report. This lake really seems to like flies. I am encouraged by the mention of the deeper fish at 56' Sounds like bigger fish. The little Kokes are very present taking flies in the about the center of the lake (East to West) and right out in the middle.

Jimbo

2/8/2010 8:59:00 AM

Nice, Hey, I've been looking at riggers. What kind do you all use for lake's ?

rseas

2/8/2010 3:55:00 PM

Mine, or should I say the downrigger on my boat is a Scotty 1085 Strongarm 30 manual retrieve. I have 400' of the 250# premium braided downrigger line and a 12# vinyl coated ball. I also have a downrigger weight retriever. For my boat the set-up works perfectly.

MotoBoat

2/8/2010 9:34:00 PM

rseas : What is a " downrigger weight retriever" I have a scotty electric but am not familiar with the term.

rseas

2/9/2010 6:36:00 AM

It is a hard plastic donut attached to a lanyard that you route the downrigger cable through. To use it, when retrieving the weight you stop a foot or so short of where you normally would at the end of your retrieve and then pull the lanyard/plastic donut towards the boat, finally securing the laynard in a jam cleat. When secure the downdrigger cable is alongside the gunwale allowing you to rig the release clip without leaning way out to the end of the downrigger boom.

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