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By: ElginFishing
Posted: 10/23/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/20/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with fellow NWFR member JoshH to target this year's kokanee. God blessed with 6 kokes between the two of us and they were next year's fish. With the number of kokes caught and their smaller s...
By: reynoldsj
Posted: 10/15/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Great day with my daughter. 12 Kokanee and 3 trouts. :)
By: reynoldsj
Posted: 10/8/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Not bad day for Kokanee. 12 total and my son got 7 on his own...super proud dad.
Here is the video on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtZNO2y9D_s
By: reynoldsj
Posted: 10/5/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing at Lake Cavanaugh, on the water at 7 am. Using downriggers, average depth 30ft to 40ft.
Pink or Gree hoochies with corn. Killing it today!!
youtube link below
https://www.youtube...
By: Salmonking
Posted: 8/18/2018
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Launched and were underway by 0630 this morning. Made one pass down the western side of the lake before limiting out. We were running a proto type blade for "How Deep Tackle". Water temp was very warm...
By: jdp53
Posted: 8/13/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2018
Hot Spots: 2
No pictures with this report, sorry!
Saturday
Purchase of our boat was finally completed on Friday so Saturday we hit up Lake Cavanaugh. We arrived around 11:30 and fished until 7:00. Once we we...
By: dmjjwood
Posted: 8/1/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Hi all,
Been a while. Work... Now, new to me boat, work can wait... :)
Brought my son out and hit the lake at roughly 730 Tuesday morning. Later than i wanted but oh well. Started trolling...
By: windhorse
Posted: 7/26/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Why isn't anybody fishing this lake? Spent another wonderful day fishing and swimming, getting away from the heat.
Caught fish all day, again mostly skinny cutthroat, but also hooked in to some reall...
By: windhorse
Posted: 7/17/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the Lake around 2:30 and there was a big tide change at 3. I know lakes don'y have tides, but I find that the bite is often synched especially when targeting Kokanee. Right off the bat I got 4 ...
By: FishingTenor
Posted: 5/28/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I had the day off and took advantage of it. Nice cloudy day with occasional sun breaks. A little windy though. There are beautiful snow-capped mountain views from the middle of the lake. There is a ni...
By: JoshH
Posted: 11/18/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/18/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Another lake I haven't fished since I was young. I have a picture of me fishing there, bit no actual recollection of doing so. Time to change that!
A somewhat late start, maybe about 9am before I g...
By: tyee4me
Posted: 6/26/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We hit the lake 7:10am this morning lake was flat. Started to troll near the big island which is at South end of the lake. By 8:30am we started to get bites but no fish. 9:50 no fish two boats pass by...
By: Dmitch
Posted: 6/25/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Later start than we wanted (my fault) but got to the lake at 7am lines in water 15 mins later, headed north to the first point and began trolling in 40ft-50ft of water parallel to the coast heading we...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/11/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We were trying to decide on which lake to hit, Stevens or Cavanaugh well we finally made our decision of hitting both in one day! So we wanted to fish Cavanaugh first and arrived at the lake around 5:...
By: scraig1962
Posted: 6/10/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I fished early morning until noon. We trolled the usual spots right around the boat ramp, down both sides near the ramp, and even ventured to the island area when we got desperate. We tr...
By: cobrar543
Posted: 3/28/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, I have never had a worst day on this lake than today. One Cutthroat that was about 14" and that was IT. Tried EVERY combo that my fishing partner, Paul, and I could gather the courage to put our...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/7/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/7/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Normally we’d be fishing coho but with the closures this year we are exploring other fishing options. I’ve fished Cavanaugh before but not in a while. The lake is close to our home, but it always seem...
By: cobrar543
Posted: 9/5/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Took my brother out for a day without stress. Weather was ok, Rain held off, and there was very little wind. Fish on the other hand did not jump in the boat. 5 hours later we had 3 male's and 2 Fem...
By: cobrar543
Posted: 8/22/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/21/2016
Hot Spots: 2
What a great lake. We started about 9 with 4 different combos of flashers and Ring colors. End of the day we had the most luck with Toni's wannafish lure Gold with 50/50 silver/gold blade at 30 feet a...
By: majorhunting
Posted: 8/15/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Cavanaugh again Saturday and Sunday. Saturday my buddy and I were lucky enough for a two man limit and on Sunday my little brother, friend, and I were shy of our limits by two fish. Fillets. It...
By: dmjjwood
Posted: 8/14/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Hi again all,
Just a quick report in for today, 8-14-16.
Hit the lake around 0815 solo this time, left the launch and headed for 40' of water and started to let out the colors. 3 colors of lead...
By: dmjjwood
Posted: 8/8/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Hello All,
Figured I would write up a short report since it's been awhile that one was posted for this lovely lake. Coming from Lynnwood, my son and I hit the lake about 0815. Weather was dry but ...
By: reynoldsj
Posted: 6/26/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Its was good day, caught a few Kokanee 13 to 15" and small cutthroat trout. I was using the down rigger at 25 to 35 feet down. Went all around the lake, using a Dodger silver 000 Moocher Luhr Jensen, ...
By: ChesterDog206
Posted: 6/13/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/12/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I made the trek up to Cavanaugh in search of Kokanee. We launched at about 6:30am. I trolled 10+ different set-ups of kokanee gear at multiple depths on two different rods. My buddy tr...
By: carhauler12
Posted: 5/22/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Buddy came up from Auburn and so we decided to go fish Lake Cavanaugh.. Got a pretty late start but started fishing around 11;30. Action was pretty consistent. Ended the day around 3;30. Through a...
