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Coeur d'Alene Fishing Reports

Coeur d'Alene
By: linty
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Launched out of Sun Up Bay and headed across the lake between East Point and Powderhorn Bay. The launch and dock system is improved over last year. Water surface temp was about 55° F. It was a little ...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: farmer_aa
Posted: 5/19/2013
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This is a kind of a two day report for me, though I only fished for about 3 hours Saturday night and 3 hours Sunday morning. The water is colder now than it was a week ago in Coeur d' Alene. The war...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 5/19/2013
Species: Pike
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the main lake at Cda today for a few hours. Wind was not making things too easy but I have seen worse. Only managed one Pike but while I was trying to talk the pike into taking a soft plastic f...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: farmer_aa
Posted: 5/12/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Perch are up where I was in the south end of the lake. They are schooled up and haven't spawned, much to my surprise. They're looking fat and almost ready to pop. The girls are full of eggs and ooz...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: farmer_aa
Posted: 5/12/2013
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I got in a couple of hours again today for some pike in the sun. Nothing big, but the action was pretty fast. Lots of small pike were sunning, and many could be sight fished and fooled. I landed fi...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: farmer_aa
Posted: 5/10/2013
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I had a multispecies day and a few surprises. This was my first trip since hard water season, and in the middle of an extended period of unseasonably warm weather. The water ranged from a cold 48 de...
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Coeur d'Alene
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...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: Nik
Posted: 3/29/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It's officially spring...only 5 bass to the boat between the two of us but they added up to a 20lb bag. Biggest was this 6lbs 8oz caught on a jig.
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Coeur d'Alene
By: farmer_aa
Posted: 12/14/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The time came today for me to wrap up open water fishing. It's always sad to have to take the boat out of the water for the last time of the year and make that one last cast. On the plus side, the r...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: farmer_aa
Posted: 11/28/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
First I will say this... it's amazing how fish can change their preferences in just 4 days, even in relatively stable weather. Second, I will say this... I'm glad I found them again! As it turned ou...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: farmer_aa
Posted: 11/25/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I fished solo today for about five hours. The good news is that the open water season continues! The water is up, and is only about 2' below summer levels. The hydrograph I sometimes check in with ...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: dblood1974
Posted: 11/20/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well..with the exception of not putting any big fish in the boat, this was one of those days that you only dream of. It didn't start off well as we didn't do our due diligence and showed up to a Mica...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: farmer_aa
Posted: 11/18/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I got a chance to sneak away to the lake for 3 hours of fishing with my 2 year old daughter. The high point was snapping a picture of her next to a small pike that was worthy of use on our Christmas ...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 11/18/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A recent surgery has the Drumdog on the DL (that's the disabled list for you non sports fans) at the golf course, so I talked him in to dusting off his fishing rods and going after some pike with me t...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 11/4/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Cda Lake yesterday with a friend from work. We got started at abaout 8:45 and within about 10 minutes I stuck the biggest of these 2 fish. I found her in about 7 to 8 feet of water using a Ra...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 10/22/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers saturday the 13th and sunday the 21st. I really miss the pike fishing on the Pend Oreille River, however when the fish are biting on Cda Lake I tend to forget about the disaster th...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 9/9/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The wife went along with me yesterday for a day of pike fishing. We started the morning on one of the chain lakes with limited success. I got a follow on about the 5th cast of the day but the fish did...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 9/2/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The wife and I battled the wind yesterday at Coeurdalene Lake in search of some pike. I missed about a 10 pound fish only a few minutes in to the day when he hit a soft plastic frog but didn't hook...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/19/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/18/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Went to Coeur D’Alene Lake after Kokanee Saturday morning. We launched out of Mica Bay and headed across the lake around Driftwood Point. It took a while to find them, but once we did and dialed in th...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: Nik
Posted: 7/20/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Slow but worth it. 7lbs 7oz. Caught on top.
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 7/9/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Given the recent demize of the northern pike in the Pend Oreille River, I have been spending a lot of time fishing Coeurdalene Lake and the connecting chain lakes. I learned to fish for pike in the cd...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 6/26/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got a chance to hook up and show some chain lakes pike fishing opportunities to Natebg1, his son Hunter and friend Chris. These guys were new to these waters so it was going to be a challenge without ...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: kevinb
Posted: 6/21/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished CDA from the 16th-19 Heres the breakdown Sarturday-Arrived late afternoon and made a few casts prior to dropping the boat in and caught a little smallie. Got the boat in the water and made ...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: bjw444mar
Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out yesterday and caught 25 Blue Backs (tribal permit) the bite wasn't red hot but pretty steady and it took about 4 hours to catch my limit. I didn't use any weight and had my lake trolls back ...
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Coeur d'Alene
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 6/11/2012
Species: Pike
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I got out to fish Cda Lake with Mark K. yesterday. He likes to sleep in and had to be home a little early so we only had about 4 or 5 hours to fish. We hit a few bays on the north end of the main lake...
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