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Coeur d'Alene Lake Report
Kootenai County, ID

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05/12/2018
Top Fishing From Boat
Pike
Morning
51° - 55°
05/14/2018
5
1938

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 tough. I finally found the first fish but it just rolled on a spinner bait. I had to work the area for a bit and return a few minutes later when I couldn't get the fish to bite a second time. 10 minutes later I ran back over the area and stuck a nice 35" 10 1/2 pounder. Over the next two hours I caught 4 more fish for a total of 5 on the day. All fish were between 30 and 35" and in great shape. The fish didn't seem to be relating to any particular structure, just milling around feeding in a shallow bay. I got 2 on a bright orange and chartreuse spinner bait and 3 on a Johnson Silver Minnow spoon in 3-4 feet of water.
Where were these things two weeks ago when I was fishing the tourney. :) My first 4 fish Saturday had a combined weight of 34 pounds. The day one leader of the tourney weighed in 28 pounds. Oh well, happens to me every year. These fish fought hard and were all revived in the live well, then released after taking photos.

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Xwisconyfisherman
5/14/2018 9:25:40 AM
Glad you were able to spend the day on the water and have success.
Jekbate
5/14/2018 12:21:30 PM
Thanks for the report. I’m a newbie to the sight. Please Tell me about AJ. Respectfully, Steve
AJ's Dad
5/16/2018 9:44:56 PM
Jekbate, AJ is my son that passed away in 2008.
fisherman92
5/14/2018 2:38:41 PM
Awesome fish! I need to get to a pike fishery one day!
Cbass765
5/14/2018 4:44:38 PM
You and me both
Mickmont
5/16/2018 5:05:38 PM
Hello Mark (AJ's dad), great to read your post from Monday and get word that you are back in the saddle! After reading a great many of your posts from the last several years (at all hours of the day or night), I was afraid that you had disappeared from NW fishing reports.... I share this only because I have so greatly enjoyed your detailed and very informative reports and must say that they have served as a great relief and verbal elixir to justify 6 months of apartment living in CDA after my wife and I moved here last summer from SW Montana. I haven't fished for pike since childhood when my uncle took my brothers and I up to the Boundary Waters on a couple of summer canoe trips, but have always found them to be a fascinating game fish well worth the time and effort that you have described so frequently for those of us blessed to live near waters that hold them! They are a remarkable predator!
That said, thanks for taking the time on so many occasions to share your expeditions with those of us who marvel at your success in catching and returning these remarkable monstrrs to the watery depths of Lake Coeur d'Alene - God willing, I will look forward to one day crossing paths with you out on that magnificent body of water. Thanks again for your posts, Mike
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