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Originally Posted by Drewski Canuck
End of Winter low oxygen perhaps?
This happens on a lot of our trout and perch lakes in late March / April.
O2 drops and the fish are sluggish because of low oxygen. Tell tale is fish way off the bottom.
Never been there to Cascade Lake , but I have seen this happen many many times over the years elsewhere.
Could that be part of the problem Brandon?
Now I won't upset a certain Board Member who is only upset by someone mentioning "Finner Duramax Lake", but I know a place where the fish aren't too sluggish as long as there is no East Wind Blowing.
Sea Hawk's wife caught a true "kneel down and worship" walleye there recently. It had to go back but I was afraid she was going to swallow her ears the way she was smiling.
Drewski
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You know I am not sure about the dissolved oxygen levels in the lake. I suspect with it being a reservoir, quit large and having some stream inflow that its levels shouldn't drop to much. To tell you the truth it seems more like a weather pattern effect. I talked to a guy who fished there on the Saturday before we were there. Like two days before and he caught 100. I saw pics. He told me exactly wear to go. We fished it on Wednesday and didn't even mark a single big fish. Just caught a few 3 to 6 inchers. During the days we were there, we were lucky to even mark 20 fish on the Marcum a day. Super slow. Sure oxygen may be coming into play. But seems something else changed and the fish dispersed. Where we were finding the best like was right smack in the middle of the lake, a deep water flat, no structure and they were just wandering around down there.