06-02-2014, 06:59 PM
I was blessed to spend a week up in Cascade and boy, what a week it was.
Monday wasn't anything special. We were targeting perch and we caught some, including a couple larger fish, but they were hard to come by.
Tuesday I spent most of the day at Little Payette. I was targeting SMB's but hoping to tie into a Tiger Muskie. The water was crystal clear, with no wind. I could see down into the water at least 10 feet most of the time. I threw a spinner bait for several hours and only saw 1 fish. It was fairly large, but I'm not convinced it was large enough to be a TM, so I'm going to say it was a sucker as I know there are a lot of suckers in there about the size of the fish I saw.
Wednesday I went back to Cascade and focused on figuring out the Crappie. Once I finally got them dialed in I was able to catch about 20 keepers. I threw back about 10 others. All kept fish were in the 9-12 inch range.
Thursday I started the morning focusing on Crappie and caught a few, but I guess I fished out my spot or things changed, but I think I may have kept too many. I wish now that I had thrown a few more back. Around 11AM or so I moved locations and changed focus to perch again. I caught a SMB, so I changed gear and started focusing on those. I absolutely hammered the bass for about 4 hours catching 30-40 with less than 1/2 of those being under 14 inches. I fished all the similar structure I could find. Then I moved over to a different kind of structure to give that a try and hooked into a very large Tiger Muskie on my very first cast. He must have inhaled my bass lure because if was only a few seconds before my line was cut by it's teeth.
The next day (Friday) and I went back to my bass tactics, but didn't have much luck. On about my 4th or 5th cast, I could see a fish following my bait. As I reeled in in kept getting bigger and bigger. A good sized Tiger Muskie was following my bass lure and continued on right up to the boat. It sat there for 5-10 seconds about 3 feet from the boat, about 2 feet down, and about 8 inches from my lure. I jiggled my lure trying to entice the hit, but alas, he swam under the boat and out of sight. It was still cool to see that BIG TOOTHY fish sitting there staring at my bait.
Friday evening my wife and grand kids met me up there. I took the kiddies after small perch on Saturday morning and then spent the rest of the time with them on the bank.
It was a very nice week. Sorry, no pics.
[signature]
Monday wasn't anything special. We were targeting perch and we caught some, including a couple larger fish, but they were hard to come by.
Tuesday I spent most of the day at Little Payette. I was targeting SMB's but hoping to tie into a Tiger Muskie. The water was crystal clear, with no wind. I could see down into the water at least 10 feet most of the time. I threw a spinner bait for several hours and only saw 1 fish. It was fairly large, but I'm not convinced it was large enough to be a TM, so I'm going to say it was a sucker as I know there are a lot of suckers in there about the size of the fish I saw.
Wednesday I went back to Cascade and focused on figuring out the Crappie. Once I finally got them dialed in I was able to catch about 20 keepers. I threw back about 10 others. All kept fish were in the 9-12 inch range.
Thursday I started the morning focusing on Crappie and caught a few, but I guess I fished out my spot or things changed, but I think I may have kept too many. I wish now that I had thrown a few more back. Around 11AM or so I moved locations and changed focus to perch again. I caught a SMB, so I changed gear and started focusing on those. I absolutely hammered the bass for about 4 hours catching 30-40 with less than 1/2 of those being under 14 inches. I fished all the similar structure I could find. Then I moved over to a different kind of structure to give that a try and hooked into a very large Tiger Muskie on my very first cast. He must have inhaled my bass lure because if was only a few seconds before my line was cut by it's teeth.
The next day (Friday) and I went back to my bass tactics, but didn't have much luck. On about my 4th or 5th cast, I could see a fish following my bait. As I reeled in in kept getting bigger and bigger. A good sized Tiger Muskie was following my bass lure and continued on right up to the boat. It sat there for 5-10 seconds about 3 feet from the boat, about 2 feet down, and about 8 inches from my lure. I jiggled my lure trying to entice the hit, but alas, he swam under the boat and out of sight. It was still cool to see that BIG TOOTHY fish sitting there staring at my bait.
Friday evening my wife and grand kids met me up there. I took the kiddies after small perch on Saturday morning and then spent the rest of the time with them on the bank.
It was a very nice week. Sorry, no pics.
[signature]
]
]