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Spent the afternoon up at Cavanaugh. Lake is cooling off, fish are not so easy to find but they are there! Got 3 very nice fat roe filled Kokes. 13-14 inches. 38 feet with purple squid. Last fish in the boat was a 14 inch rather good looking Cutthroat also 14 inches. It was by far the best looking cutty I have pulled out of the lake, so I decided to keep it for the smoker. When I cleaned it, her gut was full to the max with tiny clam/mussel? shells. I have never seen that before. There are almost no bugs at the lake and before this the cutthroat have been pencil thin. Does anybody know more about this? I just have never in all my years fishing seen anything like it.

On another note, there was a surveyor from WDFW and we had a chat. He was doing preliminary measuring for what might become a blacktopped parking lot, new bathrooms, and even a DOCK! Woohooo, this is huge if it happens.

jdp53

9/26/2019 11:13:19 AM

Even just a concrete boat ramp would be enough to make me jump for joy, everything else is just gravy!

Nice fish, I still have yet to catch a Lake Cavanaugh koke, I seem to only find cutts. Probably need to get out earlier, and get my gear and speed honed it, but either way, I love that lake, even without having caught a koke there.

Strange with the little clams in the belly of the cutt. Is it possible that some cutts move into the from surrounding creeks?

baldginger

9/26/2019 11:22:05 AM

I've caught perch out of Roesiger full of those too. Was curious where they came from

Whatcom

9/29/2019 2:26:28 PM

I have seen this before specifically with bigger cutthroat. The ones I caught with clams and snails in them always seemed to be in better shape.

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