Idaho’s Lake Cascade is one of North America’s premier fisheries for big yellow perch like these jumbo specimens caught through the ice. Provided by Jordan Rodriguez In the pale morning light, the ...

CASCADE, Idaho — While many anglers hang up their poles when winter arrives and the lakes freeze over, Idaho's ice fishermen embrace the changing landscape and take to the solitary terrain for some of ...

With Idaho Fish and Game biologists wrapping up their annual Lake Cascade gillnetting survey, the question on everyone’s mind is: What does the forecast look like for anglers going after ...

Once the premier yellow perch fishery in Idaho, Lake Cascade has seen a decline in its perch populations since the mid 1990s due to predation by the pikeminnow, poor water quality and disease. But a ...

I heard that everyone and their brother has been catching perch at CJ, so I thought I’d better go hit them. Buddy, Alex Murashko has been telling me that he wanted to go fishing, so I invited him ...

Trout fishing is really picking up right now. Alpine lakes and creeks are in peak season, high elevation reservoirs like Horsethief and Cascade are producing, and even C.J. Strike is giving up some ...

In the pale morning light, the ghostlike outline of Sugarloaf Island appeared, quickly vanishing into the mist as our snowmobiles sped by. I had been ice fishing on Lake Cascade many times, but never ...