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Coeur d'Alene Fishing Reports

Coeur d'Alene
By: sarelvd87
Posted: 9/19/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my son decided to go fish for a couple hours Sunday morning. We arrived at the spot we were going to try around 9am. We fished on the Southern part of the lake towards the st Joe chain lakes, t...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 9/18/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I got out to CDA with the packernut in the rain yesterday. We gave our rain gear a workout, that's for sure. We managed 6 pike on the day with one 29"er one 30"er and two 31"ers. I think the bigger fi...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: Packernut
Posted: 9/11/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My fishing partner was out of town for the weekend so I asked my wife and daughter. My wife said she needed to be back by 3:00 for some shopping. The last time I took her was about this time last yea...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: stiuca
Posted: 9/6/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I start fishing on one of the chain lakes at 4 in the afternoon, that day, after almost 2 hours of fishing in different spots, I caught a 46 inches pike. Its weight was 27 pounds. It was a great filli...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 9/4/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got back to Cda yesterday, this time with Mark K. Things started out very quickly when I boated a nice 26" pike on the very first cast of the day. Our next fish was a large mouth about 10 minutes late...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/29/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
With the wind blowing hard on Saturday I decided to opt for a short trip to the north end of Cda for pike on Sunday. The Packernut and I were on the water by 6"15 and landed the first pike by 7:05. We...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/23/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The Packernut and I spent the entire day Sunday, battling the wind, to grind out 2 pike and a dink large mouth bass. Wind was calm till around 9 or 10am then blew all day after that, maybe even reachi...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/14/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/13/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday was once again a tough day for the wife and I. It was 8 years ago yesterday that we lost our son AJ. We spent the day fishing Cda Lake, then visiting the lake where we spread his ashes and r...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/7/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I'm giving this trip a 5 due to good company (my wife) and a decent number of fish for the weather conditions, but I could give it a 1 due to equipment problems. LOL My wife came along and we were...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 7/31/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Warm water and high daytime temps lately had me expecting a slow day of pike fishing Saturday, but I was pleasantly surprised. I started the day with the 30" pike in the attached photo at 5:45 am. The...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 7/3/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I finally got the big fish jinx off my back for the year. I have encountered them on most of my trips out this year but had not managed to get one in the net. I have had them roll up on a bait and mis...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 6/27/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well it looks like the storm that rolled through on friday had the pike in a bit if a lazy mood. We started the day with a fish in the first 10 minutes, then had one of those Coeurdalene Lake sea mons...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 6/12/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The Packernut and I were on the water at Cda Lake around 6:30am, once again in search of pike. We hit several spots on the main lake where I had seen or hooked some nice fish last weekend. Unfortunate...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the main lake at Cda yesterday, mainly in the middle portion of the lake, with decent success. Although I only managed to catch and release 3 pike, they were all fat for their length and grea...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 5/22/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Wish I had better news to report but the pike bite was slow slow slow for us on Cda and the chain lakes yesterday. we started the day with great weather. Overcast skies, zero wind and no rain. We miss...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 5/16/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Cda Lake and the chains allowed us to catch and release three on this trip. the day fell short of a 5 star day when I missed three different fish that were easily over 30". I guess you can't catch the...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 5/9/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The pike fishing is picking up for me in Cda and chain lakes. Fish seem to be more active and hitting a variety of lures. Saturday they mostly wanted the soft plastic frogs, but have also been hitting...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for 2 days, Saturday and Sunday. Packernut and I fished the pike tourney on Cda lake over the weekend. We caught 11 pike on Saturday and 14 on Sunday. The fish we found were small, no...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 4/9/2016
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on Cda for my first real shot at pike this year. Have been there once so far but wasn't expecting too much on the trip and I was mainly trying out some new baits. That said, the first real f...
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Coeur d'Alene
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.
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Coeur d'Alene
By: Friendlyfishcharters
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.
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Coeur d'Alene
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...
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Coeur d'Alene
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...
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Coeur d'Alene
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...
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Coeur d'Alene
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...
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