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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 11/18/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A recent surgery has the Drumdog on the DL (that's the disabled list for you non sports fans) at the golf course, so I talked him in to dusting off his fishing rods and going after some pike with me t...
By: farmer_aa
Posted: 11/18/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I got a chance to sneak away to the lake for 3 hours of fishing with my 2 year old daughter. The high point was snapping a picture of her next to a small pike that was worthy of use on our Christmas ...
By: dblood1974
Posted: 11/20/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well..with the exception of not putting any big fish in the boat, this was one of those days that you only dream of. It didn't start off well as we didn't do our due diligence and showed up to a Mica...
By: farmer_aa
Posted: 11/25/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I fished solo today for about five hours. The good news is that the open water season continues! The water is up, and is only about 2' below summer levels. The hydrograph I sometimes check in with ...
By: farmer_aa
Posted: 11/28/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
First I will say this... it's amazing how fish can change their preferences in just 4 days, even in relatively stable weather. Second, I will say this... I'm glad I found them again! As it turned ou...
By: farmer_aa
Posted: 12/14/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The time came today for me to wrap up open water fishing. It's always sad to have to take the boat out of the water for the last time of the year and make that one last cast. On the plus side, the r...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 3/8/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I, along with friend Ron, had the privilege of attending a Chinook salmon class put on by a well known tackle shop in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. It was a wealth of information on the Coeur d' Alene lake...
By: cumminsbassguy
Posted: 11/9/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well I could rate this a 1 because I didn't catch any fish, and we didn't catch any target species of smallies... we launched at sun up around 915.. water was 50 all day.. was cloudy amd raiming all...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 7/3/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I finally got the big fish jinx off my back for the year. I have encountered them on most of my trips out this year but had not managed to get one in the net. I have had them roll up on a bait and mis...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 7/31/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Warm water and high daytime temps lately had me expecting a slow day of pike fishing Saturday, but I was pleasantly surprised. I started the day with the 30" pike in the attached photo at 5:45 am. The...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 4/9/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on Cda for my first real shot at pike this year. Have been there once so far but wasn't expecting too much on the trip and I was mainly trying out some new baits.
That said, the first real f...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for 2 days, Saturday and Sunday.
Packernut and I fished the pike tourney on Cda lake over the weekend. We caught 11 pike on Saturday and 14 on Sunday. The fish we found were small, no...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 5/9/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The pike fishing is picking up for me in Cda and chain lakes. Fish seem to be more active and hitting a variety of lures. Saturday they mostly wanted the soft plastic frogs, but have also been hitting...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 5/16/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Cda Lake and the chains allowed us to catch and release three on this trip. the day fell short of a 5 star day when I missed three different fish that were easily over 30". I guess you can't catch the...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 5/22/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Wish I had better news to report but the pike bite was slow slow slow for us on Cda and the chain lakes yesterday. we started the day with great weather. Overcast skies, zero wind and no rain. We miss...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the main lake at Cda yesterday, mainly in the middle portion of the lake, with decent success. Although I only managed to catch and release 3 pike, they were all fat for their length and grea...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 6/12/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The Packernut and I were on the water at Cda Lake around 6:30am, once again in search of pike. We hit several spots on the main lake where I had seen or hooked some nice fish last weekend. Unfortunate...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 10/20/2013
Species: Pike
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Cda and the chains again yesterday with Mark K. I was attempting to outfish him from the back of his boat as he has done to me on more than one occasion this year. if you ask me I accomplished ...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 7/13/2015
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Pike fishing on Cda and the chains yesterday was slow. Warm water has the fish in taking a break from eating right now. At least when I try to feed them. 2 of us managed 5 pike on the day and a nice l...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 11/16/2015
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Saturday was an outstanding day on the water for pike fishing. I hit the water at about 7:45am with farmer_aa and aesox. The weatherman predicted some rain in the morning but we never saw anything but...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 11/21/2015
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
When I got to work on Wednesday the power was out and I got sent home. Bummer, so I took a coworker along and we grabbed the boat and headed to Cda for some pike fishing. The weather was cold and ther...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 9/13/2015
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Sunshine, bluebird skies, and warm temps had the pike hiding out yesterday. I released 2 nice pike. One at 28" and one 36" 11-1/2 pounder. I lost 6 more on the day. One of those appeared to be about 1...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 9/28/2015
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the main lake on Saturday with the Packernut. We got the overcast skies and no rain that we asked for but there was a little wind issue to deal with. I saw poredictions of up to 12 mph but at...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 10/4/2015
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
WIND was the word for yesterday for sure. Weather.com predicted the wind would start at 10am and get up to 18 mph, and it was spot on. We decided to fish the chains with strong winds predicted and tha...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 10/11/2015
Species: Pike
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Another windy day at Cda Lake and the pike fishing was slow slow slow!! We picked up 2 fish in the first half hour then nothing the rest of the day. We had 3 or 4 follows and one or 2 actual bites but...
