Coeur d'Alene Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass
Target species: Rainbow Trout, Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Cutthroat Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Black Crappie, Yellow Perch
Boat: 6 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Conkling Marine.
The lake
Coeur d'Alene Lake covers 27,727 acres in Idaho, across Kootenai County. It is a lake. Our records hold 12 species for this water.
7 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Northern Pike — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Cutthroat Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
Also recorded here: Atlantic Salmon, Channel Catfish, Lake Whitefish, Green Sunfish, Pumpkinseed.
Stocking: 3,875,696 fish, 1977–2015
Idaho Department of Fish and Game records list 3,875,696 fish released into this water from 1977 to 2015. The latest stocking on record is from 2015, more than three years ago.
- Rainbow Trout: 298 in 1973–1974
4 more species on the stocking list.
6 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 6 boat ramps.
- Conkling Marine — on Coeur d' Alene Lake. 20 West Jerry Lane
- Loffs Bay — restrooms.
- Mica Bay — restrooms.
- Mineral Ridge — on Coeur d' Alene Lake. phone 2087695000 · email blm_id_coeurd'[email protected]
- Rockford Bay
- Sun-Up Bay website sunupbayresort.com
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 6 places in this list: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.
What is hard here
Wind is the limit, not the fish: 27,727 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle.
