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By: FishinCougar
Posted: 3/25/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Coeur d' Alene lake on Friday the 20th of March. Launched at Higgins Point water temp about 37 degrees. Fished around centennial bridge with no luck. Drop shotting with power minnows and fishing b...
By: CDA_Fisher
Posted: 6/3/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at the lake around the cottonwood bay area about 6pm. I was able to do some 'passive' fishing while I got the boat uncovered for the weekend. After about the first week in July I can set a...
By: FishinCougar
Posted: 8/3/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up the chain lakes this morning. Went to a few of our hot spots looking for some smb. Started on top water, and right off the bat we were getting hits. Then bam, slammed a giant crappie. Decided t...
By: evgeniy
Posted: 11/29/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went there at noon cought 16 good bass. first fishing was slow then I got alot. 1 perch suprizingly and 1 8 pounder
By: bennick
Posted: 7/6/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2011
Hot Spots: 3
Went over to a friends cabin in cave bay on monday and went out fishing. We left about 8:30 and trolled a rapala around the debris by the shore. I got one big hit but it didnt stay hooked. We casted t...
By: cumminsbassguy
Posted: 11/9/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well I could rate this a 1 because I didn't catch any fish, and we didn't catch any target species of smallies... we launched at sun up around 915.. water was 50 all day.. was cloudy amd raiming all...
By: cumminsbassguy
Posted: 11/12/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, stopped at Beckers tackle shop before heading to the lake today to get some swimbaits. Great guy there and a great tackle shop. Get to the water around 10 ish. Launch at sun up bay. WiND was jus...
By: wilcam47
Posted: 5/18/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
caught a few smallies, nothing big, didnt find a good bait they were biting or any good numbers. Ended up in Mica bay and my wife and I caught 1 pike each. We saw multiple pike but only had two lande...
By: Husky
Posted: 8/23/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/1/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This is a rather late report, but was able to spend some consecutive early mornings on Lake CDA in early August prior to the heat wave. I was on the water at daybreak (nice and peaceful). I'm looking ...
By: cdadave
Posted: 2/29/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Put in at 8:30 and ran down across from Rockford bay and trolled the east side of the lake. Seen one other boat. Had two down rigger rods out at 10 and 20 feet with Herring and a Fly. Ran two other...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 3/8/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I, along with friend Ron, had the privilege of attending a Chinook salmon class put on by a well known tackle shop in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. It was a wealth of information on the Coeur d' Alene lake...
Posted: 3/22/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Caught one 10 lb 34 inch Chinook salmon at the South end of the lake. Lot of fish on the fish finder, but only one landed.
By: ponyman2
Posted: 3/28/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 1 8lb Salmon. No other bites at 730am. Talked with other boats and found no one with a keeper. Caught this one just outside Sun bay.
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/21/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/19/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I’ve driven by this lake so many times going back and forth to visiting my son in Montana, always wondering how the fishing was. So when the opportunity came up to fish with the Club Chairman for the ...
By: OLDRED1STMATE
Posted: 7/22/2009
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for salmon with a flasher and herring from mica to arrow point over the hump to tubbs hill gave up at at 10am, no bites. what gives with the salmon.....
By: SsendaM
Posted: 12/4/2011
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Big One Winter Chinook Derby on Lake Coeur d' Alene over the weekend with my neigbor. Saturday 4 fish were caught in my boat all about 20" except a 6.70# Chinook that I turned in placing me...
By: tinytowers
Posted: 4/15/2012
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to CDA for some Chinook fishing earlier this week. Launched at Sunup and headed North towards Black Rock then back down the East side towards 16 to 1. Running helemted herring off the downr...
By: SsendaM
Posted: 2/3/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well I started off at 3rd st. boat ramp around 6am, turned out to be a big mistake lol, ended up costing me 10$ in launch fee's so beware of that one.. I trolled in front of tubbs hill for 2 hours w...
By: OLDRED1STMATE
Posted: 7/6/2009
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished at first day light till 9a no bite, no luck. Marked most fish from 28 to 61 with a few at 70 to 90 feet. trolled at east point in 60 to 150 foot of water. tried spoons, hoochies, and a fly.. h...
By: charlie h.
Posted: 3/14/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hi Guys
I went to catch Salmon on CDA Lake , hooked up on a 15 lb 8 oz Chinook . Great day on the water!
By: SsendaM
Posted: 4/14/2013
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The weather kicked off the derby in Idahoan fashion, 45mph gusts with sideways rain and snow/hail and made for some interesting fishing. We camped at Mowry state park boat in site and made it out on t...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 12/6/2015
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished CDA yesterday with the Packernut. We finished the day with a total of 9 pike. The water temps were 35-42 throughout the day. All fish came from the main lake in about 5-6 FOW. All fish were cau...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 12/19/2015
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The Packernut and I decided to take one more shot at the pike for 2015. We got a great day of weather, mid 30's and no wind. Water temp at the first spot was 40 degrees.
I started the day by putting...
By: brent338
Posted: 9/24/2020
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/21/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Took a swing at pike fishing after getting my very first ever one at Hadyen, after limiting on kokanee for the day.
Launched at rainy hill and headed into the chain lakes, had a productive day for...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 5/14/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on Cda and the chains for a short day Saturday to celebrate AJ's Birthday. He would have been 29 years old.
Started out getting blanked for the first hour and thought things were going to be...
