Fishing Forum

Went bank yanking at Cascade Saturday with my 2 grand daughters, a friend, and 2 of his kids. We fished off the sandy beach at Blue Heron.

Started fishing around 11 or 11:30 and fished until about 5. We caught a total of 10 fish for 7 rods out. Power bait, power eggs, and worm/corkie (scented with garlic and un-scented) all seemed to work about equally well. Some fish came close to the bank (about 3-40 feet out) while other were out as far as we could cast.

All the fish caught were trout with most of them in the 15-17 inch range with a couple smaller ones and 1 bigger one that was ballparking 20-22 inches.

Ice was moving around on the lake and was fairly close to shore at times and was way out there at others. A boat could have been launched at BH but the amount of fishable water from there would have been extremely limited. The ice did not appear to be very thick, but it is difficult to tell from a distance.

I think we are getting very close to the lake being very boatable.

That's my report. Hope you find it helpful.

The north end around Tamarack Falls is all open water. You can fish from the bridge or the bank.

Still lots of ice around the Poison Ck ramp.
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Boatable from Boulder Creek?
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You could probably launch your boat, but you wouldn't have much surface area to fish. Still lots of ice on the main lake. It looked to me like a guy could still get on and ice fish after a short swim or canoe ride!
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thanks for the report hnh, good too see you got out, wish you could of made the Columbia trip.... we will have too take the boat up too cascade one of these weekends, busy this weekend and the following, but I know you got some days off during the week so that might work out..... did you try for any perch?
Matt
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I wasn't trying to exclude perch, but we didn't get any. We weren't in a location that is well known for perch. I'd like to get into some. I think another record might still be out there. What you doing on Friday?
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