Fished Cascade today. Slow is the word. Picked up one kokanee, about 11" and one rainbow which measured out at 21+ inches. Now, he was fun, and mitigated the lack of action most of the AM. Two other boats that came in with us drew blanks, and one bass fisherman caught 4 perch on the surface with topwaters. We had quite a few hit and runs, but they might have been small, in that the worm on the wedding rings were never so much as even slightly mangled. Only action came at 20 feet on the 'riggers. Mike
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Avery just got back with some perch. He spend a week up there with his Grandma fishing and just got home last night. He said fishing was slow at best. Many days getting skunked. The last couple of days they did ok on perch but nothing large. Avery brought home 4 bags of fillets with 12-14 fish each. They will be tasty and I didn't even have to clean them. He said they caught them in Grandma's secret spot.
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Kodiak, think I barely missed you up there. I spotted your boat in the parking lot at the ramp on Monday, when we were getting out of the water a little after noon.
I will third the statement of it being slow at Cascade. We drove up Sunday and got on the water at about 10:30 and fished until 2:30. There were large schools of 4 to 5 inch perch swimming around docks when we launched. We ran up as far as Sugarloaf and fished the west side of the reservoir the first day. Lots of little ones chasing your bait nearly every time you would reel in. We only caught two that would've been worth keeping.
The next morning we started early on the west side, in the spot that we had caught the larger of the fish the day before. It was the same scenario with a large number of small fish tapping and chasing your bait. We ended up catching five fish that went 9 or 10 inches and tossed them all back. We stop fishing around 2:30.
It was beautiful weather and a very nice time, but I still haven't figure that place out...
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Sorry we missed you. Not that we had any good info! We dropped the boat there because we had to run into McCall. We found all our action from the city dock to Crown Point, with most of it about half way between. Graphed very few fish. I agree, it is a hard one to figure out. I've been fishing there since 1955, and it is amazing how it constantly changes. Some years ago the hot fishing was from the city ramp south along the golf course, and then that shut down. We hammered huge trout about 7-10 years ago by Rainbow ramp in the early fall with flouresc. flatfish, and then nothing for several years. I could go on and on. Other bodies of water are consistent for years in regards to location and terminal gear, but not Cascade!! Well, we'll hook up another time, and hopefully with better stories!! Mike
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