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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/17/2023
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2023
Hot Spots: 0
The kokanee are small this year (July 2023) averaging 8 inches, seem to be only biting in the thermocline- 15-25 ft range with a downrigger and 30-50 ft back, trolling a flasher -hoochie-2 pieces corn...
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By: NWFishGuy
Posted: 5/5/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/5/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled 1-1.5mph from 6:30a to 10:30a with a single bite around 7a. Used pink hoochies with shoe peg corned scented with anise/bloody tuna, trolled 8in behind a standard chrome dodger. Fished Powderho...
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By: brent338
Posted: 9/24/2020
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/21/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Took a swing at pike fishing after getting my very first ever one at Hadyen, after limiting on kokanee for the day. Launched at rainy hill and headed into the chain lakes, had a productive day for...
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Posted: 4/3/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/1/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Starting to pick up some larger fish in cda. Helmeted herring on the boards or trolled behind Dodgers at 45 ft have been the ticket for me. Water is starting to dirty up so it might be about time to s...
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Posted: 4/1/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out Sunday to CDA with the kids for a few hours of fishing. The weather was rainy mostly but I decided to try my luck for some Chinook. We launched at the Mineral Ridge boat launch and headed t...
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Posted: 3/7/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/2/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry new member. Fished 7 to 1 with helmeted herring and a 1 and a half oz weight on the boards. Got. A 7 and 10.5 lber. Slower than usual but it's just gonna get better
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Posted: 9/15/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/14/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I fished The LIttle Big One kokanee derby with my brothers on Coeur d' Alene Saturday. The morning bite was very good. We tried to find bigger fish staging to spawn of off the points and it paid off w...
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Posted: 8/30/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
We fished CDA around Arrow Point from 830am to 1100. The kokanee fishing has been great and it will only get better! The fish are running around 14 inches with some up to 16". I haven't seen the fish ...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/20/2019
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/17/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Got back on CDA Saturday for some pike fishing. I arrived at the launch and found 3 parking spaces left. With the side of the parking lot lined with non boater cars without trailers, it made using one...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 7/8/2019
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Rating this day a 4 not because of fish quantity but because of the quality. Of one fish that is. I fished Cda with a friend on Saturday. We boated 3 pike and 3 largemouth between the two of us. I los...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 6/24/2019
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Got back to Cda Lake on Saturday after being of that water for about 3 weeks. I was expecting the weed growth to be much further along than it was. Targeting pike is much easier when you can see the w...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 6/2/2019
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2019
Hot Spots: 0
With a bass tournament scheduled for Saturday out of Harrison, I decided to launch near the north end of the lake to avoid getting to the boat launch at Sunup and potentially not getting a parking spo...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 5/26/2019
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2019
Hot Spots: 0
The Packernut and I got out after some pike yesterday, hoping to knock the dust off our catching skills in preparation for our trip to Saskatchewan in a couple of weeks. We managed to find a few pike ...
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Posted: 4/3/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Trolling on the south end of the lake. Caught a few fish but it was a long grind to get what we got. Fish were caught on helmeted herring between 15 and 20 feet deep
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 12/2/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/1/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This may have been my last pike trip of the year. Christmas is right around the corner and things are getting busy. Temperatures are dropping, and making it a little tougher to hang on to the rod and...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 11/26/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/24/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I'm rating this trip as a 5 due to lots of fish, even though they were mostly small ones. The little guys are fun to catch when you find them in bunches like this. You kind of get to the point where y...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 11/19/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Had a decent day on Saturday catching and releasing 7 pike. 5 dinks and a couple of 30"ers that weighed in at 7 and 8 pounds. The fish were in about 10 feet of water but I had to run the baits down a ...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 11/12/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Former poster on this website "Lucious" stopped by on his way home from Scotland to chase a few pike with the Packernut and I on Saturday. He graciously started the day by putting the first fish in ...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 11/4/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Wow what a day of fall pike fishing!! I started the trip off catching a nice 14 lber on my third cast of the day. Caught fish throughout the day. We had some down time though between fish. Fish were s...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 10/31/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
The Packernut and I were back at it on Saturday the 27th. Once again the quality fish were ready to play and the glide baits were their favorite for the day. In fact, all of our fish were caught on th...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 10/14/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/13/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Saturday started off slow for us. I fished with a friend and we went for about the first 4 hours with nothing but a couple half hearted tugs on the line. No hook ups and no follows. Things were lookin...
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Posted: 10/13/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/12/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We got to Higgins Point at noon and headed out towards blue bay and wolf lodge. I saw lots of fish around 30-35 ft so I dropped the riggers down and the action began. It was non stop for the next 2 hr...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 10/7/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Had a good day at Cda today for a short trip. I fished from 7:30 till noon and managed 4 pike. Two at 23" one 11 pounder at 34" and one fat 32"er that weighed 11 1/2 pounds. I also missed a couple oth...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 9/23/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
The Packernut had other things to do yesterday, so my younger brother Ken came along to try and catch his first Cda Lake pike. His hopes were high. On the way to the lake, he said "I sure hope I can ...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 9/17/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday turned out to be a very good day for me after getting schooled by the Packernut for almost 8 hours. We were on the water by about 6:15 and he puts the first pike in the boat at around 7-7:15...
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