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By: sarelvd87
Posted: 9/19/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my son decided to go fish for a couple hours Sunday morning. We arrived at the spot we were going to try around 9am. We fished on the Southern part of the lake towards the st Joe chain lakes, t...
By: Nik
Posted: 3/29/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It's officially spring...only 5 bass to the boat between the two of us but they added up to a 20lb bag. Biggest was this 6lbs 8oz caught on a jig.
By: farmer_aa
Posted: 5/12/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Perch are up where I was in the south end of the lake. They are schooled up and haven't spawned, much to my surprise. They're looking fat and almost ready to pop. The girls are full of eggs and ooz...
By: FishinCougar
Posted: 3/27/2010
Species: Pike
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at about 9 this morning. Launched out from Higgins Point and headed to Wolf Lodge Bay. Fished unsuccesfully with smelt, herring and skinned perch. Tried with a bobber at various depths un...
By: spoons
Posted: 3/4/2010
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We fished on Coeur d'Alene today and had a pretty good time. We fly fished for bass with some light colored leach patterns under an indicator and caught one smally. Around 10:00 am we changed locati...
By: goinfishin
Posted: 10/26/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I was out on CDA, Bennett Bay - Higgens Point area yesterday fishing for Kokanee. Marking solid schools from 40-70ft. Water temp 51F. All caught at 50ft on the down rigger 50ft back at 1 mph on a 4” ...
By: kokocrazy83
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...
By: Husky
Posted: 9/11/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/9/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got out to target some Kokanee. As always Mica Bay produces. Started fishing around 5:30pm headed south across the mouth of Mica Bay. I had 3 fish in the boat before I even got my second rod ...
By: kokocrazy83
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 ...
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...
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...
By: Packernut
Posted: 9/4/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/2/2018
Hot Spots: 0
My brother in law was up from Boise for the weekend and I was able to take him out pike fishing Sunday morning for a few hours. He caught his first CDA pike on his fifth cast followed by a nice 6 pou...
By: Husky
Posted: 8/23/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/1/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This is a rather late report, but was able to spend some consecutive early mornings on Lake CDA in early August prior to the heat wave. I was on the water at daybreak (nice and peaceful). I'm looking ...
By: CDA_Fisher
Posted: 6/3/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at the lake around the cottonwood bay area about 6pm. I was able to do some 'passive' fishing while I got the boat uncovered for the weekend. After about the first week in July I can set a...
By: outdoorsinidaho
Posted: 4/3/2010
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Harlow point for pike today during the fun wind storm. fished with herring on the bottom under a bobber, somewhere between 10-15 feet. Hit one early, hit another around 1, the last one was abou...
By: evgeniy
Posted: 11/29/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went there at noon cought 16 good bass. first fishing was slow then I got alot. 1 perch suprizingly and 1 8 pounder
By: FishinCougar
Posted: 3/29/2009
Species: Pike
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the lake at about 4 pm fished till dark. My friend and his son caught 2- 24 and 27 inchers. Still pretty slow. The other picture is another friend of mine that was further down the bay fro...
By: FishinCougar
Posted: 3/25/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Coeur d' Alene lake on Friday the 20th of March. Launched at Higgins Point water temp about 37 degrees. Fished around centennial bridge with no luck. Drop shotting with power minnows and fishing b...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 7/14/2013
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the morning chasing pike on the main lake at Cda before tapping into one of the chains before going home early at noon. I managed 6 pike and one nice largemouth. Fish were on the cabbage in 6 to...
By: cumminsbassguy
Posted: 11/12/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, stopped at Beckers tackle shop before heading to the lake today to get some swimbaits. Great guy there and a great tackle shop. Get to the water around 10 ish. Launch at sun up bay. WiND was jus...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/23/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The Packernut and I spent the entire day Sunday, battling the wind, to grind out 2 pike and a dink large mouth bass. Wind was calm till around 9 or 10am then blew all day after that, maybe even reachi...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/29/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
With the wind blowing hard on Saturday I decided to opt for a short trip to the north end of Cda for pike on Sunday. The Packernut and I were on the water by 6"15 and landed the first pike by 7:05. We...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 9/4/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got back to Cda yesterday, this time with Mark K. Things started out very quickly when I boated a nice 26" pike on the very first cast of the day. Our next fish was a large mouth about 10 minutes late...
By: stiuca
Posted: 9/6/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I start fishing on one of the chain lakes at 4 in the afternoon, that day, after almost 2 hours of fishing in different spots, I caught a 46 inches pike. Its weight was 27 pounds. It was a great filli...
By: Packernut
Posted: 11/12/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Was able to get the day off of work to go fishing with AJ's dad. Thank you to all our Veterans. Mark is really dialed into the pike fishing on this lake. It was a pretty interesting day as Mark mis...
