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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: 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: 8/14/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/13/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday was once again a tough day for the wife and I. It was 8 years ago yesterday that we lost our son AJ. We spent the day fishing Cda Lake, then visiting the lake where we spread his ashes and r...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/7/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I'm giving this trip a 5 due to good company (my wife) and a decent number of fish for the weather conditions, but I could give it a 1 due to equipment problems. LOL
My wife came along and we were...
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: 7/10/2016
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Information obtained from the internet showed 4 fishing tournaments on Cda Lake, so Mark K and I gave the pike a break and headed to Silver Lake for some Tiger Musky fishing. We fished for just under ...
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: 6/27/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well it looks like the storm that rolled through on friday had the pike in a bit if a lazy mood. We started the day with a fish in the first 10 minutes, then had one of those Coeurdalene Lake sea mons...
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: 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: 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: 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: 5/9/2016
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: 5/3/2016
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: 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: 4/3/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I'll be danged if I can find a location to report fishing in the Spokane arm so I put it here. :)
My brother and I launched out of Porcupine Bay and fished a small tournament organized by so...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 3/13/2016
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/11/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I selected crappie for the targeted species because that's what we had success catching. We headed to Hayden hoping to find some active pike in shallow bays. After a few hours efforts, and only seeing...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 12/19/2015
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The Packernut and I decided to take one more shot at the pike for 2015. We got a great day of weather, mid 30's and no wind. Water temp at the first spot was 40 degrees.
I started the day by putting...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 12/6/2015
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished CDA yesterday with the Packernut. We finished the day with a total of 9 pike. The water temps were 35-42 throughout the day. All fish came from the main lake in about 5-6 FOW. All fish were cau...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 11/30/2015
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on Cda again yesterday with the Packernut. The thermometer in my truck said it was 16 degrees at the boat launch. The weather reports I had been seeing were predicting 38. Man were they wrong....
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: 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: 11/7/2015
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day pike fishing with the Packernut and Ron on Cda today. Could not have asked for better weather. Intermittant sun and clouds, the wind behaved it's self and the pike were cooperative. (F...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 10/25/2015
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The fall pike bite on Cda Lake just might be starting to hit it's stride. Cooler overnight lows have brought the water temps down into the mid 50's and the fish were a bit more active yesterday. We fi...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 10/19/2015
Species: Pike
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Justin and I fished the main lake from about 8am till around 5:30. Water temps were 54-60 degrees. Wem got our share of bites but the hook up ration was poor. For me at least. I know I missed at least...