The Perch of Cascade Lake
Cascade Lake in Idaho has been gaining in attention the last few years across the Ice Belt in the USA and Canada. Do not forget your Jaw Jacker when you are heading to this lake. Each year we go it seems there are more fishing groups out on the ice in search of the monster perch that roam below the ice. We have met guys from all over the place out there. Even though you may watch this video and think we had an amazing day fishing, most other guys were getting skunked or only catching a handful during the same time period.
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Cool stuff man, thanks for sharing
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Absolutely slayed them my man, congrats on those humpbacks!
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Wicked Perch. What if a guy wanted to mount some? I assume you can bring them back whole and frozen for your Taxidermist of choice here?
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regulations. Has nothing to do with fishing regs. |
Cascade Slabs ........ nice.
I really wish we could grow them (consistently across an entire age class) that big here. What's the forage base in that lake? depth? water classification? I genuinely interested in seeing what makes so many of these grow so big there. |
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The killed this lake off over 10 years ago, poisoned the whole thing and then restocked stunted perch from another lake. This is what happens. So its those first few year classes that are growing big because there weren't much for numbers in the lake then. Who knows how long this will continue. Hasn't always been like this. |
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Some beauty perch there.
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Over time it will tend toward the mean and they aren't really sure how long that will take. 2016 test netting results show that overall the average size of the perch was still increasing. So it hasn't even hit its peak yet. So we're probably ok for a few more seasons. Speaking with Tackle Tom down in Cascade he said prior to the original perch Collapse a large fish was around 12 to 13 inches. So eventually will probably get back to a regular fishery. Till then I'll be hitting it just for kicks. |
That looks incredible. Certainly better than Mons lake
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Return trip to Cascade
Are you returning to Cascade this year? I’m planning on a February trip 15-22. I have never been but have watched your videos multiple times. I need to experience it for myself now Covid testing is no more to cross the border.
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All in all those are some good snackers. 35 years ago we could catch some pretty close to that size from Duck Lake in BC just north of Creston.
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Anyways, Brandon's last log in here was back in January FYI. |
He still posts on IG if anyone is looking for him. Cascade has really gone downhill for fish over 15" inches from what I've read. All the social media attention definitely thinned out the monsters.
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The lake level dropped about 10 feet for various reasons and the lake winter killed. No idea if it could be rehabilitated with a weir to hold the water or restoration of natural drainage and restocking, as the water levels have returned to a number of lakes in the LLB area. Drewski |
Sylvan lake and believe it or not Chestermere lake had lots of over 12 inch hump back perch in the 70 and 80 not much for size left in either
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There’s still a bunch of lakes in Alberta that hold large perch. Not many anglers like to post or even talk about these lakes tho.
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