07-14-2014, 03:51 PM
Fished at Cascade from Thursday through Saturday. Only fished mornings and evenings, but the perch were fairly hard to come by. Had a few streaks where I got a few, but most of the time was pretty bleak. I did catch quite a few suckers on Thursday evening. I caught about 15 in around 3 hours along with about 10-12 perch. All were caught near the smaller island just south of sugar loaf island.
Catching the suckers was actually very enjoyable in that they were great fighters and I was catching them on my ice fishing rod. I've never tried eating sucker and don't plan to, so they were just culled. The biggest missed the state record by about 6 oz or so. Weighed out on my scale at 8 lbs 1 oz.
Also found a few bass near the same island on Friday night. 3 of them were better than 17 inches and they were also great fighters. One had a big lump in it's stomach so I decided to keep it to see what it had eaten. When I cut the gut open all I found was eggs. Turns out the spawn isn't completely over. Made me feel bad to think that I kept it and prevented it from spawning, but I can't take it back now.
Also saw a giant crawdad on Saturday. It is the first I've seen in Cascade (doesn't surprise me to find out there in there, but I had been wondering). I'd estimate that it was around 10 inches long or so. Looked like a small lobster.
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Catching the suckers was actually very enjoyable in that they were great fighters and I was catching them on my ice fishing rod. I've never tried eating sucker and don't plan to, so they were just culled. The biggest missed the state record by about 6 oz or so. Weighed out on my scale at 8 lbs 1 oz.
Also found a few bass near the same island on Friday night. 3 of them were better than 17 inches and they were also great fighters. One had a big lump in it's stomach so I decided to keep it to see what it had eaten. When I cut the gut open all I found was eggs. Turns out the spawn isn't completely over. Made me feel bad to think that I kept it and prevented it from spawning, but I can't take it back now.
Also saw a giant crawdad on Saturday. It is the first I've seen in Cascade (doesn't surprise me to find out there in there, but I had been wondering). I'd estimate that it was around 10 inches long or so. Looked like a small lobster.
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