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Cavanaugh Fishing Reports

Cavanaugh
By: scraig1962
Posted: 11/1/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Left for Cavanaugh around 1:30 pm with my daughter hoping there might still be some kokanee around. Trolled down the middle like we usually do but didnt have any bites or mark any fish. Decided to g...
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Cavanaugh
By: Stsb
Posted: 8/13/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/13/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Well today was a short day for work so we decided to hit cavanaugh for some nice Kokanee. Got the gear in the water at about 3:30 and we were limited out by about 7:00. We fished in about 59 feet of...
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Cavanaugh
By: scraig1962
Posted: 6/29/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I couldn't convince my 5yr old daughter to go fish the Skagit again (skunked yesterday), but she did want to go to Cavanaugh again. Started fishing at 5pm and limited by 7:30pm. We trolled in 60' of...
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Cavanaugh
By: vlamb
Posted: 6/29/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I fished from 11am till 1pm. Fished 2 rods on DR and 1 surface. Lost 3 and got 2 in the boat. They were 9 and 10". 4 of the 5 were on the same rod. Hot set up was purple/pink dodger hoochie...
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Cavanaugh
By: scraig1962
Posted: 6/26/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Another decent evening on Lake Cavanaugh. This time my old lady and 5yr old daughter wanted to go, so we headed up there after work. Got to the launch just before 6pm and my co-worker was already la...
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Cavanaugh
By: scraig1962
Posted: 6/24/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After getting skunked the last three times out on the Skagit fishing for sockeye, I decided to try something different and check out Lake Cavanaugh. Launched out around 6pm and had 1st fish on at abo...
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Cavanaugh
By: VMV1998
Posted: 6/18/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/17/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Targeted Kokanee. Trolling. Trolling. Depths 25' - 50'. Water temperature 61F.
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Cavanaugh
By: Patina
Posted: 6/17/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This year, I've been fishing at Lk Cavanaugh since late April but my last good fishing experience there was 3 days of fishing from 6/6/ to 6/8/14. Fishing was best on 6/7 from 10:30 AM to 2:00 PM. C...
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Cavanaugh
By: rseas
Posted: 6/1/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Whoo-hoo, we made it out on the water! It took the perfect storm but it happened. Karen got herself a new fishing kayak and wanted to break it in, we were invited to visit friends that have a place on...
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Cavanaugh
By: Dhedzik
Posted: 5/4/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2014
Hot Spots: 1
My fishing buddy and I caught our limit on a boat with yellow/green power eggs.The cutthroat were a nice size...11-12 inches.We had fun, warm day,a little sunburned,but would return.We pan fried them ...
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Cavanaugh
By: jonb
Posted: 5/1/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day, I arrived to the boatlaunch at 6:30, I got turned around and missed the boatlaunch and lost 1/2 hour just trying to find the launch, on to the report. I started the day intending to targe...
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Cavanaugh
By: Bow_Slayer
Posted: 4/23/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake with my dad and uncle around 9:30, not much action for the first hour just a couple strikes fishing 20 feet down in 30 foot of water using gang trolls and worm tipped wedding rings. W...
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Cavanaugh
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/14/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/13/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I had an itching to fish this lake again and as my day got free I asked JoAnn if she wanted to fish and she said "yes". So off we went, me with thoughts of the last time I fished the lake and did real...
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Cavanaugh
By: Idstud
Posted: 7/7/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived to the lake and started fishing around 6am with a few other boats on the lake. I stared out with the same small red home made spinner with the 50/50 dick night dodger. I was in about 50ft ...
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Cavanaugh
By: Idstud
Posted: 6/23/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well my 5yr old didnt want to get up supper early So left the house around 8 on the water by 950. I got the rods in the water more around 10 and within a few seconds it was fish on. I had her using ...
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Cavanaugh
By: Pitboss
Posted: 6/21/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Got to the lake at around 10 am. Had my first fish in the boat with in 15 minutes. Then nothing for about 1 hour. Then found a big school of fish and it was "Fish On" for the next 45 minutes. I lost a...
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Cavanaugh
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went on my first Northern mission this morning. Alarm goes off at 2:45 and it was very hard to get outta bed. Pulled into the lake at 4:15. got out to 35' of water and went to set a down rigger and th...
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Cavanaugh
By: chucksta
Posted: 5/26/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at Cavanaugh about 5:30 am. 3 minutes after launching the first koke was in the boat. My buddy that landed it was asking if he should keep it or let it go I replied "this is a cherry picking l...
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Cavanaugh
By: Pitboss
Posted: 3/24/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
First day out to Cavanaugh. Hit the lake around 9:00am. Had one on early but lost him. Then about an hour later picked up another and got him almost to the boat and lost him too. Look to be a Kokanee....
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Cavanaugh
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 2/18/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
After a weak morning of fishing at Lake Cambell, we launched in Cavanaugh around 1:45. This lake is great for Kokanee when it warms up, but the water temp of course today was 37 deg.!! Saw the usual...
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Cavanaugh
By: Idstud
Posted: 7/15/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My Dad and brother came up to visit from Idaho and they planting Kokanee in some lakes near them and since Ive been fishing for them and catching them they wanted tips in how to do it. We got to the ...
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Cavanaugh
By: jonb
Posted: 6/10/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 2
what a beautiful lake cavanaugh is... got there and in the water by 7am, we cruised out towards the islands with the gas motor, and we started seeing fish jumping and hitting the surface everywhere, s...
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Cavanaugh
By: patsfield
Posted: 5/31/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2012
Hot Spots: 0
First line in at 4:45 P.M. left at 5:30 P.M. Caught a 7, 9,9,10, and 12 inch cutthroats off my friends dock using a worm and spin bobber. I let the 7 inch go back to grow up.
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Cavanaugh
By: rseas
Posted: 5/30/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had a few hour window to fish today so I figured that I would hit Cavanaugh and do a little on the water research. Arriving at the launch around 9:00 I found that there was only one other rig in the...
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Cavanaugh
By: rseas
Posted: 5/29/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Sunday one of the kids had an overnight guest and I had some chores to do so no fishing was planned. Of course that all changed when we found out that our guest likes to fish but because of some famil...
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