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Coeur d'Alene Fishing Reports

Coeur d'Alene
By: agneww1987
Posted: 4/3/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Trolling on the south end of the lake. Caught a few fish but it was a long grind to get what we got. Fish were caught on helmeted herring between 15 and 20 feet deep
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 12/2/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/1/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This may have been my last pike trip of the year. Christmas is right around the corner and things are getting busy. Temperatures are dropping, and making it a little tougher to hang on to the rod and...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 11/26/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/24/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I'm rating this trip as a 5 due to lots of fish, even though they were mostly small ones. The little guys are fun to catch when you find them in bunches like this. You kind of get to the point where y...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 11/19/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Had a decent day on Saturday catching and releasing 7 pike. 5 dinks and a couple of 30"ers that weighed in at 7 and 8 pounds. The fish were in about 10 feet of water but I had to run the baits down a ...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 11/12/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Former poster on this website "Lucious" stopped by on his way home from Scotland to chase a few pike with the Packernut and I on Saturday. He graciously started the day by putting the first fish in ...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 11/4/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Wow what a day of fall pike fishing!! I started the trip off catching a nice 14 lber on my third cast of the day. Caught fish throughout the day. We had some down time though between fish. Fish were s...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 10/31/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
The Packernut and I were back at it on Saturday the 27th. Once again the quality fish were ready to play and the glide baits were their favorite for the day. In fact, all of our fish were caught on th...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 10/14/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/13/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Saturday started off slow for us. I fished with a friend and we went for about the first 4 hours with nothing but a couple half hearted tugs on the line. No hook ups and no follows. Things were lookin...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: kokocrazy83
Posted: 10/13/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/12/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We got to Higgins Point at noon and headed out towards blue bay and wolf lodge. I saw lots of fish around 30-35 ft so I dropped the riggers down and the action began. It was non stop for the next 2 hr...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 10/7/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Had a good day at Cda today for a short trip. I fished from 7:30 till noon and managed 4 pike. Two at 23" one 11 pounder at 34" and one fat 32"er that weighed 11 1/2 pounds. I also missed a couple oth...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 9/23/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
The Packernut had other things to do yesterday, so my younger brother Ken came along to try and catch his first Cda Lake pike. His hopes were high. On the way to the lake, he said "I sure hope I can ...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 9/17/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday turned out to be a very good day for me after getting schooled by the Packernut for almost 8 hours. We were on the water by about 6:15 and he puts the first pike in the boat at around 7-7:15...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: Husky
Posted: 9/11/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/9/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got out to target some Kokanee. As always Mica Bay produces. Started fishing around 5:30pm headed south across the mouth of Mica Bay. I had 3 fish in the boat before I even got my second rod ...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 9/9/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/8/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterdays short trip to Cda almost didn't happen, due to family being in town. However, on Friday evening, they all ganged up on me, put my arm behind my back, and made me commit to being on the wate...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: Packernut
Posted: 9/4/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/2/2018
Hot Spots: 0
My brother in law was up from Boise for the weekend and I was able to take him out pike fishing Sunday morning for a few hours. He caught his first CDA pike on his fifth cast followed by a nice 6 pou...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AverysAdventure
Posted: 8/25/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/1/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Here is another late report from a few weeks back. We fished CDA lake for 5 days, July 31 - Aug 4. Mostly just fished for a few hours in the morning and bit in the evenings. Everyday was a new adven...
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Coeur d'Alene
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 ...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/20/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Had a good but not great day fishing pike again on Cda lake. I took my brother again the rookie pike fisherman. Unfortunately for him all he got again on this trip was experience. He claims he had f...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/14/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/12/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day on the water on Sunday. My daughter was in town and wanted to net and photograph a few pike, so I gladly took her along. ;) Started the day with a nice fat fish. She was only 32" lon...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/5/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/4/2018
Hot Spots: 0
The Packernut and I hooked up with a friend from the Idaho Falls area Saturday to do some pike fishing. You know, it never fails. Every time I go pike fishing when one of the local bass clubs is hav...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/5/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/4/2018
Hot Spots: 0
The Packernut and I hooked up with former poster Lucious, an old friend that now lives in the Idaho Falls area. You know, it never fails. Whenever I'm pike fishing, and there is a bass tournament go...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 7/29/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I was actually not planning to fish this Saturday, but at the last minute things changed, and I got out to Cda with a friend I haven't fished with since early last year, and his son. We were on the wa...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 7/22/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday got off to an amazing start. On his second cast of the day, the Packernut stuck a fat 9-10 pound pike. I promptly netted the fish and declared the day a 5 right off the bat. The fish gave on...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 7/14/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We were on the water by 6:15. We fished the area where I saw that monster last weekend but were unable to locate any active fish so off we went to hit a few other spots. We got our first fish at 8...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 7/8/2018
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
OK. I'm giving this trip a 4 but it could easily have been a 5 with a little more cooperation from the fish. I fished several locations on the main lake and found fish in 6-12 feet of water. The rat...
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