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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/15/2004
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing at 6:30am. Ran to the cove on the far end of the lake and trolled a variety of leech colors on a sinking line. I had several hits and caught a couple small cutthroat. Wanting to get so...
By: Uncle Wes
Posted: 5/25/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day at 9am using a #4 Brown woolley Bugger. Water temp was at 57 degrees, sunny and warm, windy at times. Worked the NW portion of the lake most of the day but did try the Southern and SW ...
By: LipRipster
Posted: 5/10/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the afternoon trolling a fly with a full sink line and a black leech. It went well with several 10 inch trout, some weighty for their size. I always find them across from the launch at the so...
By: cobrar543
Posted: 12/1/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/30/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Had a good day out with my son from Montana. No wind, No clouds, and bright sun. Oh ya, and 28 degrees. Did you know you can still get a good sunburn in November? LOL
Fishing was fair, all in the sn...
By: cobrar543
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, another great start and then fought for every fish we could find. took home 6 Kokes and released 4 Cutties for a limit. but Worked for 5 hour to get those. Every where with everything and at spe...
By: scraig1962
Posted: 6/10/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I fished early morning until noon. We trolled the usual spots right around the boat ramp, down both sides near the ramp, and even ventured to the island area when we got desperate. We tr...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/11/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We were trying to decide on which lake to hit, Stevens or Cavanaugh well we finally made our decision of hitting both in one day! So we wanted to fish Cavanaugh first and arrived at the lake around 5:...
By: JoshH
Posted: 11/18/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/18/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Another lake I haven't fished since I was young. I have a picture of me fishing there, bit no actual recollection of doing so. Time to change that!
A somewhat late start, maybe about 9am before I g...
By: ElginFishing
Posted: 10/23/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/20/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with fellow NWFR member JoshH to target this year's kokanee. God blessed with 6 kokes between the two of us and they were next year's fish. With the number of kokes caught and their smaller s...
By: JoshH
Posted: 11/18/2018
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/17/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Got on the water a little bit late this morning, around 9am, but it didn't matter. Search around the east side of the lake for a bit, but did not see much on the sonar. I did pick up a few, but headed...
By: windhorse
Posted: 9/25/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/25/2019
Hot Spots: 0
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 t...
By: AMFisher
Posted: 8/7/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Kokanee fishing has been on my bucket list for a while now. I have put it off due to the lack of a downrigger. I’ve watched the videos on how to catch them without a downrigger, but it came down to me...
By: reynoldsj
Posted: 3/16/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/15/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Well, Lake Gods were kind to us. We decided to hit at Lake Cavanaugh on a Sunday.
Been itching try these shrimp lures out from Soldier Soul lures. So why not try my favorite lake.
So I decided to ta...
By: reynoldsj
Posted: 5/4/2019
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2019
Hot Spots: 0
What a fun day!!! Lake Cavanaugh Trout fishing was excellent. Most were on toplining or 20' deep. Just stuck to God's tooth spoons (50/50 gold & 50/50 blue and Orange, and pink) and Arctic Fox trollin...
By: reynoldsj
Posted: 5/12/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful Lake Cavanaugh was beyond kind to me and my youngest son. Saw lots people, a Shout out to Grampa on NW reports too!
We used God's tooth spoons (50/50 blue, 50/50 gold, 50/50 pink) my goto...
By: FishingTenor
Posted: 5/28/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I had the day off and took advantage of it. Nice cloudy day with occasional sun breaks. A little windy though. There are beautiful snow-capped mountain views from the middle of the lake. There is a ni...
By: reynoldsj
Posted: 10/8/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Not bad day for Kokanee. 12 total and my son got 7 on his own...super proud dad.
Here is the video on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtZNO2y9D_s
By: reynoldsj
Posted: 10/15/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Great day with my daughter. 12 Kokanee and 3 trouts. :)
By: windhorse
Posted: 7/26/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Why isn't anybody fishing this lake? Spent another wonderful day fishing and swimming, getting away from the heat.
Caught fish all day, again mostly skinny cutthroat, but also hooked in to some reall...
By: dmjjwood
Posted: 8/1/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Hi all,
Been a while. Work... Now, new to me boat, work can wait... :)
Brought my son out and hit the lake at roughly 730 Tuesday morning. Later than i wanted but oh well. Started trolling...
By: jdp53
Posted: 8/13/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2018
Hot Spots: 2
No pictures with this report, sorry!
Saturday
Purchase of our boat was finally completed on Friday so Saturday we hit up Lake Cavanaugh. We arrived around 11:30 and fished until 7:00. Once we we...
By: Salmonking
Posted: 8/18/2018
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Launched and were underway by 0630 this morning. Made one pass down the western side of the lake before limiting out. We were running a proto type blade for "How Deep Tackle". Water temp was very warm...
By: Dmitch
Posted: 6/25/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Later start than we wanted (my fault) but got to the lake at 7am lines in water 15 mins later, headed north to the first point and began trolling in 40ft-50ft of water parallel to the coast heading we...
By: dmjjwood
Posted: 8/8/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Hello All,
Figured I would write up a short report since it's been awhile that one was posted for this lovely lake. Coming from Lynnwood, my son and I hit the lake about 0815. Weather was dry but ...
By: dmjjwood
Posted: 8/14/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Hi again all,
Just a quick report in for today, 8-14-16.
Hit the lake around 0815 solo this time, left the launch and headed for 40' of water and started to let out the colors. 3 colors of lead...
