Lake Cavanaugh fishing: Largemouth Bass, Cutthroat Trout, Rainbow Trout
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Cutthroat Trout, Rainbow Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Lake Cavanaugh, 1 lane.
The lake
Lake Cavanaugh covers 846 acres in Washington, across Skagit County. It is a lake: 93.7% of it is 70 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 80 feet (24.4 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 80 ft (24.4 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 93.7% of the water is 70 feet or shallower. We hold 53 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–5 ft: 3.5% of the water
- 5–10 ft: 4.6% of the water
- 10–15 ft: 4.8% of the water
- 15–20 ft: 4.9% of the water
- 20–25 ft: 5.1% of the water
- 25–30 ft: 5.2% of the water
- 30–35 ft: 5.9% of the water
- 35–40 ft: 7% of the water
- 40–45 ft: 8.4% of the water
- 45–50 ft: 10.7% of the water
- 50–55 ft: 12.3% of the water
- 55–60 ft: 6.2% of the water
- 60–65 ft: 6.4% of the water
- 65–70 ft: 8.7% of the water
- 70–75 ft: 5.6% of the water
- 75–80 ft: 0.8% of the water
3 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Cutthroat Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

- Lake Cavanaugh — 1 lane, restrooms. WDFW.
The place listed has no fee or opening hours on file: 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
Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.
Where this data comes from
- Washington State Department of Ecology — Washington State Department of Ecology: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.















