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Hey anyone know how the perch fishing in cascade is right now?
Havent been down there in many years and thought that it might be a good change.

Thanks
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Welcome to the forum, you'll find lots of help and info, so please share with us when you have something as well

My wife & I were there over the 1st of Aug and were fihing with BassinBob and his wife. [cool]We found sone 9" and some 12" ers but it was slow. We used jigs with a piece of night crawler. We got our where to go info from Tackle Toms there in Cascade. What was warm so maybe it will pick up as it cools a little.

Had an interesting thing happen. I casted out my jig and was using a slip bobber with some yellow fireline on. Well the line just hung in the air and the jig wasn't able to pull the line down, so I let out more line and the line just went up. I tried to let more line out and after about 20' was floating in the air I figured I may as well reel in and try more weight.[crazy]

In a few minutes we figured out what was going on. We had heard some thunder but had not seen any lightening. However we did recieve some shocks from our poles since they were graphite and so we figured it must have been static electricity that kept my line floating. Sure was an errie feeling.[unimpressed]

I'll share some of the photos including a picture of my floating line.

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Anyways hope this helps and welcome!

Also big thanks to Bob & Shery for a great weekend[cool][fishin]
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Hi Michael, Thanks for the reply. I've talked on the phone a couple times to Tom. I was trying to get a better idea from someone who had been on the water.
He's a great helpful guy !

Wow thats strange on your line, That would have freaked me out a bit. Real cool in a way though.
Thanks again
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You are lucky you weren't electrocuted. Line staying in the air means that an extremely high electric field is present, which is generally followed by a lightning strike. Anytime you get shocked by a rod, or you line seems to float in the air, stay low and seek shelter.
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Whoah! that floating line thing is the freakiest thing I've ever heard of! I would have the the ghosts of every fish I ever whacked had come back to haunt me or something! Glad you didn't get struck by lightning! Nice pics!

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That line is freaky. I have been shocked before at Henrys with my graphite fly rod. It is a scary feeling.

Windriver
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You guys are fearless fishermen.Its usually those times when you hook that monster fish,I had luck in the rain.My brother once put up the fiberglass boat antena up while fishing in a storm,he figured lightning would strike it instead of us since it was the highest object,sure enough a huge lighning bolt struck it burning off about a foot of the tip,you could always try this if you get caught in a bad lightning storm,only in a last resort, the antena will take the blow,but also may attract it so becarefull out in there in those storms...To put the antena up or down during a storm,now that is the question....I had this happen with the wind while using my light action spinning outfit,4pound fireline will do this as you cast it will stay floating if you let it,its only the wind in this case,I learned something thanks for posting.Please post back if you catch anything using the new electro fishing meathod you developedPaulpro knows fishing just like Bo knows basesball
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The thing about that is the lightning was on the other side of West Mountain and all we heard was some faint thunder. Then Michael's line started doing this spooky, voodoo thing. And then we started getting shocks thru our graphite rods. I usually tuck my baitcaster handle into my body as I'm holding it. When I got the first shock next to my ribs, I almost dropped the pole. Needless to say after about the third shock (I'm a slow learner [laugh]) I held the pole away from my body.

The fishing wasn't the greatest but we had a great time. The bass tourneys are slowly killing Cascade. I wish F&G would regulate them better. Cascade has had 19 tourneys from May thru Aug, while Strike has had 13 in the same period. And Brownlee has had 13 for the whole season.

A couple of 16+ inchers that my wife and I caught on the Thursday before Michael and Gloria got there. After the two day tourney on the weekend, we couldn't hardly buy a bass.
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very glad none of you were injured. very interesting indeed. nice looking bass as well. those size fight mightily. bummer the tourny's are pounding the water. i kind of wondered if that contributed to brownlee being so slow anymore. i know the draw downs hurt, but i know brownlee gets pounded with tournaments every weekend it seemed.
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awesome, walk with some well insulated gloves incase this happens again,keep that rod low and keep those lines tight Paulpro..I can't wait to tell the boys about your experience..
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Hey Bassnbob,

That's a good picture of you, you look all cleaned up and shaved. In your profile picture you look a little scruffy, something I look like when I go fishing at the end of the day.

Just a warning to all of you out there in fishing land. I recently had to do some research on emergency preparedness for my church. In my research I found Idaho has one of the highest human lightening strikes per capita in the nation. Maybe due to the mountains and many of us being outdoor persons. Fortunately about 70% of people struck by lightening survive, but, I wouldn't like to know whether I would be one of the 70% who lived or not. According to the materials I read, lightening can strike horizontally from as far away as 20 to 25 miles. It might be raining or storming in the next town 20 miles away and one of us could be sitting under clear skies and still get nailed. Electrical shocks from your graphite fishing rod just considerably upped your chances of getting zapped!!! At our ages our old tickers might not survive the electrical shock. Yuck!!
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Speak of the weather..here is what I captured..

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